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And we're gonna have the half-half-happiest. It's been cross me tap dance with Danny fucking K. Oh yeah. Dancers and prancers. Welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian green. This is the Donner to my blitz and Kristen joy. Only best to you, Chris. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Welcome back to the 12 days of TCB.

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I'm Brian green. This is the Donner to my blitz and Kristen joy. Only best to you, Chris. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Welcome back to the 12 days of TCB. Here we are rolling toward Christmas Eve, Christmas the day after Christmas the day after the day Christmas every fucking day you get a new episode of the commercial break in December fear not Thank you to everybody who has been supporting us writing in I know I love things about us I do I do love the reaction that is nice that makes it worth it

This has been great for the audience not so good for the three of us here in the room as we've been non-stop Recording, but hey, we've been nonstop recording. But hey, we'll get a nice break. We will. Brian, the beat-em-up boss, will give you guys a break, I promise, real soon. It will be well deserved. Oh man, will it be well deserved. So yeah, and everybody has been writing in saying that they're really enjoying the 12

days of TCB. Some people have been so kind as to send screenshots of them donating. I saw a National Breast Cancer Coalition fund or two the other day. Couple ASPCAs and the St. Jude Foundation seems to be a popular one with everybody. So thank you very much. Your schwag is on the way. I do promise that. So Chrissy, how are you feeling? I just wanted to take a temperature check in the room. How are you feeling? I'm feeling good.

I'm feeling great. You sound like you got a little bit of a cold. No, it's my throat. Cause we've been doing some shows day after day. After a day I might need some tea and honey. You need some tea and honey? I might. We'll get you some tea and honey.

After this episode. I just finished this episode. Not letting you go. You gotta finish this episode. Man, I'll tell you what. Don't even say I just finished the show. Not letting you go. You gotta finish this episode. Don't even say I'm getting a cold. I do not want a cold. Well, I already said it. So now you already got it. No, but don't put that into the ethos.

Oh God, I put it into the ether. What are we, Teresa Caputo now? What are we gonna do? You gotta go around, spin twice, spin around, yell in the air? What are you gonna do? How do you get rid of a cold? Well listen, it is that time of year when people do get sick, and you have been coming here, where I have 13 to 15 children, that bring around every fucking disease possible. One of my kids had this weird, have you ever heard of Rosalia? Have you heard of this? Rosalia is a very nondescript infection that children get.

Sounds like a flower. It sounds like a lovely flower. It basically blooms into an extraordinarily high fever with a rash. But adults don't get it, so don't worry. You don't have to worry about it. Or do adults get it? I'm not sure. If you get it, let me know.

But my kid was cooking. She was like at 105.7, and so when you touch her, she's hot. So listen to this, this is crazy. You say 105.7, their brains are burning at that point, but not true with children. Children can, they have a lot of malability in their brains because they're not fully formed yet, so it's a little bit, it's much different actually with a child. If you're at 105.7 as an adult, you're dead. I mean, there's no way your body can take that. So, when my first one was born, about a year, he's a year and a half old, and one night he was sleeping in the bed with Astrid and I, and I rolled over, and then he was in the middle of us, I rolled over and I touched him, just like put my hand on him, and he was like

a tea kettle. That's how hot he was. And I was like, holy shit, you know, he's a fever. So, we get up, we get the thermometer, we take his temperature, he's at 105 something. And we are freaking the fuck out. We're like, oh my God. So we get some cool damn cloths and we give him Tylenol or Motrin or whatever it is. And we put a call in to the doctor and the doctor says, well, listen, if it goes down, you know, great. If it goes up, go to the hospital.

If it goes down, don't worry about it. Come and see us tomorrow. So we bring them in the next day, and when the doctor takes his temperature, it's at 106. And now, so I'm totally freaking out about this. And the doctor is like, don't worry. This is your first. It's our first. Don't worry about it, right? Which is a really hard thing to do as a child. She's like, don't worry about it. Honestly, sometimes kids go into the 107, sometimes even the 108, and it's just their body reacting to an infection.

As long as we can bring it down with some kind of medication or cooling them off in some way, shape or form, then we don't get worried about it. But I thought to myself, holy shit, you could cook rice at 107. Can you cook rice at 107? I don't know. What does water boil at? Fahrenheit. 100 degrees Celsius. What is it? I know Fahrenheit. 100 degrees celsius.

What is it on? I know Celsius. That always gets me fooled. Christina, you have the European... No one knows this. I was embarrassed that none of us knew what temperature water boils at. What does water boil at? 130 degrees Fahrenheit, I think is what it is. There's like a 32 difference, I don't know. Okay, fact check that, Christina. Zero is 32. Zero is 32 degrees.

212 degrees Fahrenheit. 212. 212 degrees. Okay, so you had a little ways to go. Okay, yeah, so we couldn't fry an egg on his head. Rice! Rice can boil. Rice can boil on my son's chest.

So anyway, if you get Rosalia, let me know. You know where they get a lot of infections like Rosalia is at Carnival Cruises, apparently. I was going to share with you this, that I was going to share with you that I was right before we got on, I was flipping through Instagram, as I do, and I saw this reel where someone had posted that a guy on a Carnival cruise Not but 45 minutes to an hour after they left the LA port was trying to kick down people's doors He had his shirt off big boy trying to kick down doors on the Carnival cruise I have determined that the Carnival cruise has become the Black Friday Walmart of has become the Black Friday Walmart of cruising. Well, because it's so cheap, right?

It's dirt fucking cheap. It's like $100 to go to Cozumel for the weekend. I've seen those ads before. I've been on a Carnival Cruise, by the way. I went on there many years ago. My first cruise was a Carnival Cruise, and I thought it was lovely because they had nothing to compare it to.

Well, I was gonna say, maybe that's the starter cruise. Yeah, it's the starter cruise. It's the starter cruise, or it's the, I wanna get away for the weekend and I don't, I'm not getting paid till next week kind starter cruise. Yeah, it's the starter cruise. It's the starter cruise or it's the, I want to get away for the weekend and I don't, you know, I'm not getting paid till next week kind of cruise. Because I've been on Royal Caribbean and Disney cruise. Now Disney cruises are crazy expensive anyway. So you get what you pay for in that sense.

Royal Caribbean, I think is like the middle of the road. They have Ritz-Carlton cruises now too. Oh, I know, I'm on that list now. I'm on that list now too. I would go on a Ritz cruise. I would definitely go on a Ritz Cruise. If it wasn't $41,000 for the mid suite, $41,000. I looked into it.

I was like, well, I was like, Jeff and I, let's treat ourselves. Jeff and I will treat ourselves. Where do you work? I was like, oh, that's way off. Way off, 41, but so there's a huge gap between $239 for a person to go to Cozumel for the weekend, and $41,000 for the mid-suite on a Ritz-Carlton cruise. And so I understand that when you make it accessible or affordable for everyone to cruise, everyone's going to cruise, everyone

and anyone are going to cruise. But so far this year, I think I've heard that Carnival Cruises has had to pull a poop cruise for three and a half days back to port. Many people have fallen and jumped off. Sick. You know, all kind of bacteria running through there. You know, some lady died in the jacuzzi. People are literally rocking the boat in the middle of the night. I can't tell you how many fights I've seen in those clubs at night that are going on in those Carnival cruises. What is wrong with people? You're on a cruise. Why is everyone so upset? Somebody was looking at somebody's girl. That's what happened. Drunk. Curse you. Somebody is looking at somebody's girl.

That's the way it happened. That's true. Somebody's looking at somebody's man or somebody's girl and alcohol. Alcohol is the reason. Unlimited alcohol or whatever they have. And trust me, they're not giving you, you know, Cuervo 1800 on those cruises. No, that's the top shelf. Yeah, that's what we call the well liquor.

You know why we call it the well liquor? You keep it in the well so people can't see it. That's a true story. I know. Yeah. Top shelf liquor is on the shelf so people can't see it. That's a true story. I know. Yeah. Top shelf liquor is on the shelf so people see it and they want to buy it. Well liquor is in the well where no one can determine exactly what they're drinking, including the bartenders or the people selling you that alcohol.

It is a bad idea to order well drinks all night long because that alcohol is probably high octane. Carnival Cruise is the well drink. They're the well liquor of the cruise world. Absolutely. Listen, you can't fault someone for trying to find a deal. In that regard, I say, hey listen, you know, if you can only afford $239 a night, or a cruise, and you've got to get to Jamaica tomorrow to buy some weed and flush it down the toilet before you make it back to port, like Brian did. Then listen, Carnival is a great option.

By the way, Carnival Cruise was the cruise that I got stopped on the way back in. That makes sense. It had a strip search, including an anal cavity search. Well, I'm surprised they were so strict. Well, of course they are. They know that the people who are smuggling weed go on carnival cruises. Yeah, I guess you probably don't get the same treatment on the Ritz cruise. No, at the Ritz cruise, you'd... They're like, this way, sir. Yeah, they'd land a helicopter. This way, sir. Here's a special container for the weed. Yes. We will now pull into Star Island in Miami where a

Trump helicopter will pick you up and fly you back to a New York City Skyscraper with there. You'll have your ass wiped with only the finest cotton sheets 500 thread count. Yeah, and the Ritz-Carlson cruises you press a button in the bathroom and they and it goes poopoo Or a pee-pee. Someone comes running in and they dab your penis. If you pee-pee, they go, ping-ping. And clean the seat. I wonder if they have bidets. I love a bidet.

Oh, they must have bidets on the Ritz-Carlson. Well, actually, no, there's spaces at a premium there. But I did look at the floor plans on the, you know. I did too. You and I are the same. I wish I could do that. Exactly. I wish I could do that. It was totally going on like my vision board.

Listen, true story. Astrid and I love a Ritz-Carlton. Oh, we do too. We love a Ritz-Carlton. We got married there. That doesn't mean we have money. It means somebody else had money to give us, right? But we have been lucky enough to stay at a number of Ritz-Carlton's.

We are the kind of people who go on vacation and we spend the money on the accommodations. We have children, so we know that we're not going to do anything fun during the vacation, so we might as well stay somewhere nice. We do too, because we like to relax. And so we've stayed at Ritz-Carlton. Plus, when you get married to Ritz-Carlton, they give you a bunch of points you can use, you know, to stay at places. So we've made the best use out of those points.

So I love a Ritz-Carlton. So when those crews, when they started hitting me up about their new cruise ships, I was looking at every floor plan and some of those cruise ship suites at the Ritz-Carlton, they're like 1300 square feet. Oh yeah. That's half this house. I mean, it's, they're, I know it's not even in, in the way that they do them up every inch is the finest

quality, everything. When you go to the price, because of course, when you're paying $41,000 a night, a person to get on one of those cruises, a person. And then they only take you on like a three day cruise for $41,000. They have three restaurants. They have, when they have racquetball on a cruise ship, you know, you're, you're cruising with stuff. I think they actually have a polo field there. I think Harry and Megan do polo on the Ritz-Carlton ship. But when you go on a carnival cruise, because I've been on one, they stick a bed up against

the wall. There's a porthole you can't see out of. And the crapper is, the crapper and the shower are the same thing. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, see, that's what I'm not going to do. Yeah, you put down the toilet seat, give yourself a shower, but it's not. Fun. Those cruise ships are crazy.

So we're going to Jamaica? So you're saying there's a chance. Hey, listen, after the 12 days of TCB, I'm treating everybody to a Carnival cruise. I think we should do it just for research purposes. Oh, I would do it. I think those Carnival cruises are the ones where they have the yacht. I'll bring my own food. The wrestling cruises are definitely on Carnival. I can guarantee you that. Absolutely, Brad Williams was on that. Yeah, Brad Williams. Or the 90s music cruise, which apparently is very popular. I saw there was a 311 cruise, Creed has done a cruise.

No, everybody has a cruise. Everybody has a cruise. Why not a TCB cruise? Heather McMahon has a cruise. Heather McMahon has a cruise. I saw that. I thought that cruise would be fun. I bet it would too. It would be for sure. I know. She's been talking about it for a while

and I'm excited to hear the stories from it. Why can't we have a cruise? Well, I think we need to actually probably do the live shows we bailed on last year before we do. People texting all the time, what are those live shows? Stay tuned. Stay tuned. Those live shows may now be on Twitch. Hey, we gave

you refunds. What can we do? The live shows now on Twitch. The live shows now on Carnival Cruise from here to Casamel. Now Carnival's not in on this. It's just a, it's like these charities we've been talking about. They know nothing about it, neither does Carnival Cruise. Chrissy and I will be doing a live episode of TCB in the formal dining room every night at our table, which I just hope we can sell the table. I just hope we can sell 10 tables. Maybe we can have a room like your mom has off to the side at the retirement. Yes, a private, yeah. If not, then we'll do it next to the bed by the porthole. I can see it.

I do. We had a whole show planned. We had a whole show planned. I'm not even going to get into it. It's not even worth talking about. We'll get back to it, I promise. But on carnivals... Let's put a pin in it for right now and circle back later. Yeah, 2030. When my next parathyroid gets taken out. When my next tumor grows, then we'll think about it. Carnival Cruise actually sells, and I think a lot of cruise ships do this, they sell rooms underneath the waterline. Oh my God. Those are the $200 rooms.

Those are the $200, well, I don't know, on Carnival you might get a balcony for 200 bucks, but you can actually get one of those stowaway rooms and they call it the stowaway room. Like in Best in Show when they put them in the hotel room in a janitor closet. Yes, I'm not even kidding. No window, just a painting of the ocean. Where you can pretend. Where you can pretend that everything's...

This is the, if the ship goes down your first room. That's why it's $100. We need the weight to balance out the ship. $100. What do you say? But we'll let you have all the well liquor you want. Don't worry about it. That was probably the guy that was busting down doors on the carnival.

Oh man, I'll tell you what, whatever was going on, he looked angry. They actually had to sedate him. The doctors sedated him like an elephant. They just stuck him like an elephant. That's crazy. I mean, I don't even know if that's legal, but I guess out in open water, anything's legal. I guess. No, it's lawless. Hey, listen, great idea. I don't drink. So next time I go on the carnival Cruise, I'm going to start kicking down doors to get the good stuff. All right. Okay, listen, the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence is what we're talking about for the next couple of days or for the last couple of days we've been talking about it.

We are going to put a link in the show notes. The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence helps women and children who are getting out of abusive situations get back on their feet, find shelter, get away from the abusive relationships, and then get back on their feet and also with financial literacy so that they can take care of themselves and their family during what has to be extraordinarily difficult times. Super important. I know that the local women's shelter around here, which we give a lot of stuff to and money to, this is the busiest time of the year you can only imagine, and a lot of

women choose to decouple from those situations now. A lot of those women have children, and it's just a terrible thing to think about, and then to think about the fact that the kids may not have Christmas gifts, which makes it twice as miserable and twice as scary, and that the women are really in a shitty situation they've got to dig themselves out of. These people do God's work by helping other human beings get out of terrible situations. So if you would, donate a dollar, even a dollar can make a big difference this time of year to any of the causes we've been talking about, but this one feels near and dear to my heart. So if you would, please, we'll put a link in the show notes

directly to their website where you may make that donation directly to them. We have nothing to do with it, but we're just encouraging you to do some good during the 12 days of TCB. The love connection has nothing to do with the Carnival Cruises or the abuse, but, or maybe, I don't know, we don't know what happened

in every love connection relationship, do we? But I will promise you, the person we're reviewing today is not an abuser. I'll promise you this, probably the nicest guy that's ever been on Love Connection. We're going to be back with one of our favorites, What the fuck, Chuck, Love Connection. After these words, we'll be back. Holidays getting you down? Family acting out of pocket? Text us and tell us all about it at 212-433-3TCB or leave us a voicemail with all of the unhinged and or spicy details. And then follow us on Instagram at The Commercial Break and on TikTok at TCB Podcast if you need a laugh or an escape. You can always escape for a full hour and watch our YouTube videos at youtube.com slash the commercial break while you simultaneously peruse our website

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shows. Now, yesterday, we reviewed MTV's Parental Control. What a terrible television show. Whatever happened to Jeremy? I didn't find Jeremy, actually. Didn't find Jeremy. I would have thought for sure. He's probably wiped his history clean of the show. Yeah. Or he's not around.

He's not with us anymore. Or he's not with us anymore. He's incarcerated somewhere. Jeremy, I couldn't find him. I thought for sure he would be a, you know, someone trying to make a living on Instagram, but he, I didn't find him. I'll continue to look. My search skills are fantastic.

So if he's out there, I'll find him, but I only spent a couple of minutes on it yesterday. Okay. So one of our favorite things to do has been to review Love Connection episodes. Love Connection, of course, the very famous dating show from back in the 80s and early 90s. They actually had two versions of the Love Connection, one with Chuck Woolery and then another one in the mid 90s with another guy. Not as funny. Chuck is definitely the best.

Although he became problematic in his later years. He was great, but he's great now. He's great back in the 80s. He died recently, right? Chuck Woolery did. I believe. I do remember seeing something about this. I was like Chuck died. Yeah Chuck died. Okay I think Chuck died. We'll figure that out.

Is he dead? Yeah he's dead. November 23rd recently. So that's what I was. Oh he just died November 23rd? Yeah I sent that to you. Oh okay. Well Chuck for at least in the 80s you were a nice guy. So I think I have found the nicest guy that has ever been on the Love Connection stage, and that is saying something, because in the 80s, the people just had a different attitude. And also looked 20 years older. And also, this guy, wait till you see this guy.

I think he's 31, he looks like he's 62. Wait till you see this guy. Okay, let's review this episode of love connection Here's our boy Chuck Wollary. Oh Can you hit play for me? Thanks and also the music Thought I unmuted it but I don't think it yeah, there you go I don't think I... I think it's the other one.

Yeah, there you go. There you go. The president of the city of Kentucky says that in 1979 and 1980, they were the best years of his social life. Look at him. He is 37 years old. 37. Chrissy, this guy does not look a day under 65 years old.

This is amazing. I know. We have started, I think all those preservatives are- It's a huge mustache. Look at that. The mustache, I think, adds. Yeah are... It's a huge mustache. Look at that! The mustache, I think, adds. Yeah, the mustache does add years.

And the jowls. Yeah, the jowls and the gray hair, all of it together, and the caterpillars on top of his eyes. He's been divorced for 13 years, but he says that he wants to get married real soon. Please welcome John Duvall. The men don't usually say that. Oh John, how are you? I'm good. Cecile, Cecile you can tell. That's down around Fort Knox isn't it?

It's about 30 miles as a crow flies south of Fort Knox. It's about 30 miles outside of Fort Knox. See what you do is... As the crow flies. Yeah, if you take 40 over there to exit 32, then you get off at 32, you can take 16 over to 12, you know where the gas station is Chevron, you'll take a right there. I live about 12 miles from there and you got to pass a couple of past years first Chrissy. Just letting you know. Okay. What was so special, it said 1979, 1980, they're the best years of your social life. What was so special about that? That was when disco rang supreme. Oh, he was big in the disco. I love Johnny, he's so sweet. I know. I used to get him my bell bottoms and I would

go out on Friday night and I like to wear the bell bottoms but my penis often showed so I'd put a little pad in there so it was not to upset any of the women folk. And then we'd go out and party hard. We did a lot of cocaine and poppers back then, and that's why I think it was fun. Big disc or I had a dance partner. We had about 10 years older than I was. She had her own boyfriend. This is the nicest guy that's ever lived.

I know. Oh my God. I had a dance partner. She had a boyfriend. Made it pretty clear to me that there would not be any funny stuff, but that was okay with me. I wasn't very sexually mature. I was only 29 years old.

I wasn't quite ready for the full ride, if you know what I mean, Chuck. Made it kind of nice because we would go out there and really do our thing and had our little costumes on. Had costumes? Exactly. What kind of costumes? I had like a tuxedo shirt with tuxedo pants and suspenders. Oh!

That's quite the look. I got my whole outfit at TJ Maxx for about $39 and then she would be wearing a sparkly do, if you don't mind, and then we would go out there and do our thing. And there was absolutely no physical contact afterwards. It was kind of nice for me and her husband. This partner had a nice disco dress and we would do our thing and she would go sit with her boyfriend. And then this was what was so great about 79 and 80. He's just perking right up. Look at his eyes. He's like this was what's so great about 79 and 80s. Most people thought I was

gay so I really did not get a lot of action but I looked good doing it. Do you know what I'm saying Chuck? I'm over and asked me to dance instead of having it the other way around. I surely thought you were good, probably. Hey, I made them all feel like Ginger Rogers. And they loved me for it. They loved me so well, increased my dating about maybe five to ten times a week. Really? Five to ten times a week? There's only seven days in a week. Geez. He's quite the man about the discos.

Yeah. I think even when I was dating someone seriously, we wouldn't go on five dates a week. Do you know what I'm saying? No. Very much. Well, now what happened to your social life after disco took a dive? Well, it did plummet. I got into Transformers and model trains, and I had a model train partner, and you see,

she would come in and help me with the model train, but she was married. But what would happen is we would go to the model train conventions and then oftentimes I would be approached by other men to play with their trains. And it was nice in that regard. I felt like I was being paid attention to. You're really embodying this cancer. I think this guy's very nice. I wish for one minute I was as innocent as John was.

Country western scene came in. He just changed the music, doesn't matter. Country western's in, take off the sequin vest and hop into your cowboy boots. I couldn't keep up with his steps. I didn't like it, Chuck. your cowboy boots codenide joe i'm not sure uh... i didn't really like it didn't like because this goal is so sweet way we turn and touch dancing and this was all a jerk around cowboy

this is all jerry come off cal i was at a certain kind of cowboy bar and i don't know it just didn't feel right and i'm sure you're for plus know it just didn't feel right to me Chuck. I didn't care for it. Plus the tight jeans didn't show off the best of me if you know what I mean. I found that my dating decreased by five to ten days a week. In fact I get sore arms and dance in most of the cowgirls and so I didn't like that. I bruised easily Chuck.

I got sore arms from dancing with the cowgirl. He gave it a shot. Yeah, well, listen. He's a man about town. He likes to dance. He does. Well, you got hair like that. Well, disco is your thing.

It is. Right. I think he probably should have changed his haircut after disco. Been doing it the last couple of years. Waiting for disco to come back. Waiting for disco to come back. And I was sitting at home and playing disco with my thumbs. Well, let's take a look at the tape. Playing disco with my thumbs.

To John Sonner, I remember you're going to vote. This is my favorite part where we get to look at the ladies he's going to choose. Oh, yeah. Okay, first there was Tony. She enjoys dancing and woodworking. She's been divorced for four years. She likes dancing. She likes dancing.

She likes woodworking. And woodworking. And woodworking. I think that's something John could get into. She has a five-year-old son. Now, she thinks the best thing about being single is having her own bathroom. And she says, well, I'm going to go to the bathroom. She likes woodworking. And woodworking. And woodworking. I think that's something John could get into. She has a five-year-old son. She thinks the best thing about being single is having her own bathroom.

Men are a constant source of surprise. Here's what she means. Someone who seems like they'd be very dull on a date turns out to be very exciting. Some that you think would never be interested in a small child become very attached. Oh, well, that might be a downside there, Terry. Yeah, the 80s were a different time, guys. Some men just take no interest in my child and some take a lot of interest in my child. That's right. I think this lady's a perfect fit for our boy here. Very soft spoken. Yeah, Tony? My child. It's always new fit for our boy here. She's very soft spoken. Yeah, Tony. My child.

It's always new and it's always different. All right. That's your child feel about that. I know. This is Len. She admits that she talks too much. She says that she'd like to get married so that she can stop having blind dates

and start having children. Here's how Len likes to be. Len's 33, looks 43. I want to be taken seriously. Definitely. You know, not because I'm female. If you want to be taken seriously, don't wrap your shirt in a bow. I mean, let's just be real about it. I have different anatomy that I have, different feelings or different emotions than they do.

But if they want to be a gentleman, that's okay. If it makes them feel comfortable, I don't demand, you know, I don't have to have anybody open my door. Okay. She's very forward for the early 80s. She's in construction. Oh, well, you got to be, you got to have a good head on your shoulders

to be in construction. Yep. Finally watched Ellen. She's originally from Richmond, Virginia. She enjoys going to museums. Says that she wants a man who's attractive and smart as she is. Here's what she does. You can tell in Ellen's eyes that she's already way too advanced for our boy here. I think so.

I don't want him to be an egotistical person. I'd rather have somebody that was more interested in things in his life than his own life. In other words, like maybe his hobbies or things that he does rather than himself. I don't want the guy that's always taking the mirror and going like this while he's driving. Well, you lucked out on this one. I'm not sure this guy has ever looked in a mirror. Okay.

Let's take a look at all three of them again. First is Tony. She's 36. She's a high school teacher. Len works in the construction industry and she's 33. And Alan's 34, she's a sales rep for a textile company. The audience, you met John, seen his three choices. Know a lot about it. They're choosing now.

Number one! All right. It was such a fun and interactive way for the audience to get involved. It is a fun and interactive way for the audience to get involved. Choose which person's going to go on a blind date with this luscious lovely man. We're out of time, so we're going to find out who John picked and hear everything that happened on that. Don't worry, Chrissy. I got the second half.

We're going to find out tomorrow, though. That's our show for today. I'm Chuck Will half. I'm gonna find out tomorrow, though. That's our show for today. I'm Chuck Willery. I hope all your dates tonight are good ones. We'll see you tomorrow. Bye-bye, everybody. What a nice way to end things. Yeah, this is one of the very early episodes, by the way. You can tell just by the hissing noise in the background and the way that this is made.

Now they can get on Love Connection. It's a lot easier than they think. Now, if you're over 21, just call this number right here and have a free date on us. How bad can that be? Ha! Well... Well... It's a lot easier than they think. Now if you're over 21, just call this number right here and have a free date on us. How bad can that be? Well, it's kind of weird that you set people up on blind dates. They show up at each other's houses.

That's true. Yeah. Oh, that's on early set. Yeah, I love the music. All right. Chuck Colery's wardrobe, finished by Pierre Cardin. Pierre Cardin, Chrissy. I'm just letting the music play because I like it.

Today you'll meet John. I'm just letting the music play because I like it. ["Poetry to the Day"] fiction. Today you'll meet John. He always recites poetry to his dates. Yesterday the audience voted on which one. We didn't know about that part. Would you think that reciting poetry to you, would that be weird or would you like that?

I mean, it depends on the poem. Poetry, yeah. But I mean, like if you just met a guy and he came in on the second date and he just said, I have a poem for you, I'd like to read it. Yeah, maybe like the second year of marriage. Right. Yeah, something like that. No, not for you.

I don't think there is any situation where it is appropriate for a man to read me a poem. Oh, really? Unless I am at a poet's event. Yes. I had someone write a poem for me. I've written soliloquies, but I don't think I've ever written a poem for anybody. And I certainly wouldn't recite them to him.

That's what iMessage is for. It's like making someone listen to you play the guitar. It's giving Barbie, you know? You guys know the scene. Yeah, I've done that a lot. the guitar. It's giving Barbie, you know? You guys know the scene. Yeah. I've done that a lot. Escaping Brian. But to be fair to me, I was drunk or high. So there you go.

These three women- They willingly did it because they said, well, it's better than him talking. I said, do you want to hear a little Brian's escape? Escape. That's right. Here's our latest single. He best for him. Today you'll hear who John chose. Son of a son of- escape. Here's our latest single. Sunnyside up! Sunnyside up! Sunnyside up.

I just was a fan of things that, words that sounded good together, they had no meaning. Yes. And you'll meet Jan. The audience chose a date for her and it didn't work out. Today, we'll hear about her date with the man she chose. We won't actually hear about that date, but we'll hear about Jo's date. They were like already saying it didn't work out back then. Well, because she came back for a second round. You see what I'm saying? But they didn't, but in later years they don't say.

No, they don't do that. In later years, they also don't have a seven and a half minute introduction like the commercial break did for the first two seasons. Now, here's our host, Chalk Pulleray. Thank you. It's so good looking. Wow, it's so good looking! It's very nice. Oh, it's good. My belly has ass hair!

We love ass hair! Thank you. Thank you very much. Ladies, let's get started by meeting our first guest. He's originally from Cecilia, Kentucky. He's been divorced for 13 years, but he says that he's ready to remarry. He says that he came to Love Connection because he didn't like the women he's been meeting. He's been divorced for 13 years.

13 years. He's 37. So he got divorced at 24. 25. Got divorced. Yeah, 24. Yeah, that's young to get divorced. Yeah.

But I mean, if you were married to John, I know. It's going to take a certain kind of personality. Nice guys sometimes do finish last. It's a true story. And the reason why nice guys finish last is because there is a certain boredom that comes with always being nice. Do you know what I'm saying? I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but I can see John.

Well, in your young 20s maybe. Yes, yes. Although he sounds exciting with the discos. Well listen, yeah, he sounds so exciting that he couldn't find his own dance partner John what's what's wrong with the women you've been meeting? Well, I'm still you know Meeting some women at bars and places like that Yeah, and they seem to be a lot different than they did back in the, you know, the early 80s and the late 70s.

They're more cold and callous and, and in fact, they seem like they're more ugly. Why do you think they're more ugly? Oh, God. He threw that in there too. Damn. Well, Brad Bitt. I know. Well, when he got standards and he can't stand it.

I can't take it anymore. I don't know. Well, it's really hard to say. Maybe I could be getting older too and... You could be getting older, John. That might be a statement that might be true. ...and that was dating before that we're younger getting older too and we're all getting older.

That's sort of poetry. We're all getting older. Yeah, we're all getting older, Chuck. It's just one of those unfortunate things. One year I'm 36 and the next year I happen to be 37. My birthday was last Tuesday, Chuck, and I almost ran over a squirrel. Luckily I avoided any kind of contact, but it was because my arms are sore from all that flippin' and floppinping and that country of western type music.

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Then if, like say, if I like the girl. Yeah, maybe shy away from the self-portrait poem. Yeah, we don't need to hear about your self-reflection. It's like Aaron Rodgers doing a whole Netflix special on his Ayahuasca experience. It's just a little, it's a little glow up we don't need. You know what I'm saying? I'll recite her a poem that I wrote to one of my last loves. Which was quite long.

What? To one of your last loves. Yeah, nothing gets a girl wet like the last girl getting poetry. Yeah, like the poem you wrote for the last one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It works every time. Mm-hmm.

I don't mention her name or anything like that. You don't say it. To Helen. I'll leave it up. I do have one poem that I have a blank and I could put up girls. Names and... Well, please repeat it. Please recite it.

But of course, Chuck won't have a follow-up question here, which will suck because that's not what Chuck does. No. Chuck's bad at follow-up questions. But I don't do that. He's got to move things along. Let's bring everybody up to date on what Chuck does. Chuck's bad at follow-up questions. But I don't do that. Let's bring everybody up to date on what happened yesterday. Let's move this along. Let's move away from the interesting part of the show and back to the boring part of

the show. Now we showed the audience John's three choices. They voted on which one they thought would be best for him, and we're going to take a look and catch you up to date. First there's Tony. She enjoys dancing and woodworking. Dancing can't do it for a kid. I mean, I kind of like it. That's Tony she enjoys dancing and woodworking

That's Tony then Lynn she says that she'd like to get married so she can stop having blind dates and start having babies Well to be fair that's what she said. Who's as attractive and smart as she is. Now, the audience vote was recorded yesterday. We're going to get that a little bit later on. But right now, John's going to remind us who he chose. Chuck, I chose Ellen. I chose Ellen.

Oh, he chose the one that I thought would be least a fit for him, because Ellen looks and sounds like she's lived some life. Saucy. And John looks like he literally reads novels on his day off. Let's say hello to Ellen Goleski. Hi Ellen. Hi Jeff. How are you?

Fine, thank you. Just make yourself at home back there, okay? And you can tell me about the date. I went over to pick Ellen up and took Route 34 and I got off at exit 12 and I was in my jeans and had some suspenders on. Chuck, all right, John, let's move it along now. She invited me in and I go into the house right there and she looked very nice beautiful blue eyes what she corrected me is

turquoise eyes very nice party and very nice party let's put it everything we're in the right places that's good Josh Let's say every let's put it everything. We're we're in the right places That's good, Josh Both the ice yeah, and I get in so we've got the give her a chance to put the roast Water and she had water some other other plants, so I kind of went on a little tour She had some other plants, please name them. Please. I hope this guy names them.

And we get into this one room and she opens up the door and I've noticed some of the art that she does. She's a fantastic artist. Nice paintings. Just one painting though, we're talking life-size male nude. Oh. And there, I saw it.

His eyes. His eyes. It was a penis. And I came to. His eyes. His eyes. His eyes. It was a penis. Life size. Life size. Yeah, life size penis. And I came to the realization, I was dating the wrong sex. Exactly.

I mean, you know, am I here in the n-somewhere-somewhere right now? You know, I don't know. And, uh, in fact, she said she- Maybe you'd be thinking, well, she'd want to paint you. Well, I don't know. I don't know if I fact she's maybe you'd be thinking what she want to paint you I don't know if I could meet up with this nude I don't know if I could lead up to this nude. I don't know if I could meet up to this nude. This penis doesn't quite measure up. He's a very good artist and I mean we're talking detail in some areas if you know what I mean. He's been dying to tell this story.

Oh, he has. It was the most exciting thing that happened to him since the disco days. He knew the second that he walked into that room that he had the best love connection story. And he might be right because this might be episode number three. So, and it had great detail in some places. Please tell us which places it had great detail. Now, I suppose, and this one, a lot of hair under the arm. Exactly.

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accessories sold separately. All right, now we're back with you. All right. All right, we got it. No problem, don't worry about it. Christina here in studio with us. By the way, just doing a wonderful job. There's so many moving parts now to this whole thing.

Despite my snafu earlier. It's okay. You know how many times we've done it? If we had never done it, I probably would be frustrated. But we have done it so many times that it's just part of the gig. Yeah, we're really on season 10. We did it earlier today too, so I don't feel that happy. Christina and I recorded something twice today.

All right, so we're back with Chuck. He is literally with the nicest guy in the world. They're about to tell us about, well, they started, he started to tell us about his date, his blind date with this young lady. And we got to the part where he walked in the apartment and he saw a nude painting of another man with a apparently very large penis. Here we go. Who was the model for this particular painting? Well, I went to an art school in Brentwood and it was just one of the art, the models that they have at the art school, but I guess I exaggerated some

some things. Okay, she got paid. Oh, fair enough. Oh, ho ho ho. And Chuck is blushing. I know. You know the people in the audience, they are freaking out. Yeah, they are. Ah, penis!

I'm really getting to like her a lot. And I'm thinking, you know, it's about time for the you-know-what, the poetry. Oh, Lord, you just walked in the door, John. You just walked in the door and saw a picture of a penis. The poetry. The poetry. I thought he was going to say, you-know-what, my penis. I mean, honestly, you can't give this girl 15 minutes before you start dropping poetry on her?

Man, the 80s were a different time because if this worked, if she goes on a second date with him, I'm going to be very surprised. Not exactly the first thing that, not the first thing that bounced into my mind. He's a rapscallion that, Jon. Remember that. No, I realize, with all due respect. He does a little eye rollion that John. Remember that. No, I really, with all due respect. He does his little eye roll too. I know, he's got his little eyes.

Those eyebrows move up and down and they're accentuated by the world's largest eyebrows. So they just, you know, you can't help but notice. He's like a little kid. He's kind of cute. So I recite a couple of poems, one about myself and then that one special poem that I referred to earlier. The one special poem? No, I'm cringy.

The one that I wrote for the Lattalog. What did you think of his poetry? Oh, it was beautiful. It was warm and sensitive and... I'm here with you. I walked through the door. Did you know my penis hits the floor? He's an excellent poet.

Oh boy. I'm here with you. I walked through the door. Did you know my penis hits the floor? He's an excellent poet. I ain't hearing a poet here. I can't believe it. Okay, so what happened next? Okay, well, we leave there and we caught something to eat and then we went back to her place. You caught something to eat? I know. This talk's so weird.

Yeah. You caught something to eat. I know, I thought I said caught. This talk's so weird, yeah. And she invited me in and I had to get my, I had to left the jacket right there and it happened to be in her bedroom. Wait, hold on, what happened to the rest of the date? You went and got something to eat. What happened there, John? Caught something to eat, came back to her house. You're naming.

And then he had left his jacket in her bedroom. That's weird. While he went on the food outing. He was trying to get another look at that. He was. Was the nude in the bedroom? In one of the doors, in the apartment. First of all, second of all,

you were literally describing plants she had in her house and you said, we went to eat. I mean, what happened? I know. So obviously I had to go get my jacket and got my jacket and we got back to the door. And so far all we've really done is maybe hold hands because we don't want to rush these good dates.

And... What? Oh, you got to savor it. Yes. So far all we've done is... I brushed aside her, Chrissy, and I got an erection immediately and you don't want to rush these things, you see? And so I said, well, I'll give her a little peck on the lips, you know, and a little peck on the lips, got a little bit more, a little bit more.

And this jacket's really getting heavy on my arm. So it's kind of the same guy who bruises because of country western dancing. You have to understand. John hasn't been to a gym ever. The balls to the floor. And just so't been to a gym ever. It falls to the floor. And just so happens, there's a chair there. Because you get tired if you stand up very long.

What? I said, when do you get tired if you stand up very long? Well, who is this guy? He's not done a kiss more? Wait, does she sit on you? I don't know. Like a chair. Like a chair.

Yeah. Jeez, John. God, I thought you were a nice guy. Now you're just like a little hellcat waiting to be unleashed. We're still kissing and we thought, well, this has been such a nice time. Maybe it's time to cool it. No, she thought this has been a nice time. Maybe it's time to cool it.

That's basically when the date ended. It was a... Okay, so you told us about none of the dates. So far you walked in, saw saw a penis painting caught something to eat Made out on a chair, and she told you enough is enough We both agree Okay, I saw like how would you sum up this big L.a. Well when I came to love connection I was looking for a handsome intelligent man that was ambitious and I found one. Oh wow

John I found an intelligent man that was ambitious and I found one. Wow! Look at John! Whoa! I found my dancing partner who does not have a boyfriend. Let's see how good they were. Oh, I knew they were going to pick one because of the dancing. Yeah, because of the dancing and because they're both very quiet in nature. 51%. He just gave the audience a skating look.

Yeah, he gave them the death stare. I think lasers came out of his eyeballs. That was crazy. But if you want to take the audience's advice and take Tony out, you know, that's the one we'll pay for because that's who they suggested. If not, you're on your own. You can do what you want. I hope it's quite obvious by now that I would very much like to go out with Ellen. Actually, it is rather obvious. I just-

Yeah, it's very obvious- Okay, come on out, Ellen. ... as much as it can be in 80s television that things have heated up between the two of you. Oh, yes. Come on out. Come on down. that things have heated up between the two of you. You do that. You know what? You do that. Oh, yes.

Come on out and run. Come on out. Come on down. Come on down. Get yourself a furry young man. Oh, she's lovely. She's wearing a leather skirt, too. I like it.

She is lovely. Good for them. I actually wanted to see this workout for this guy because he's so cute. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know.

I know. I know. I know. I know. I a leather skirt too. I like it. She is lovely. Good for them. I actually wanted to see this work out for this guy because he really is a nice guy. You would be hard pressed to find somebody in 2024 that talks and acts like this. Hard pressed. And while he may be a little, you know, maybe he's got old world themes, he was, this is

the 80s, right? He's 40 years old in the early 80s, so. He's got his family crest on his pocket for God's sake. There's some kind of crest. Thanks for coming on the show. No, I think that's like a handkerchief. And we're going to come right back with another cup. All right, there you go.

Well, I feel really happy for John. Really excited. I hope they worked out and had babies and their family crest can be passed down. You know what? This is a couple that I probably would never find online because I don't think that John is the type of person who probably kept up with technology.

But I do have to say, what a lovely couple. What a lovely, just like, wholesome episode of the commercial break. How... Could we make it any nicer for you as we lead up into Christmas? That's a feel-good story. Yes. We didn't go for anybody, you know, we've done so many love connections, and so many of the guys are just jerk-offs to the, remember that one guy who was, the guy who was like a bouncer at the door, remember that?

And he was touching the ladies and he was like, I'd date all night long, or whatever he said, and I can keep going all night long. So many of these guys were headed straight to Jerry Springer, but John was a nice, classic, wholesome young man. And that lady, yeah, we're jail. And that lady was so lovely. Nothing like parental control. Nothing at all. All right. Well, listen, how much more damage can we do today? Honestly. Let's quit while we're ahead. I do love a good love connection. I really do. It was part of my childhood.

I remember my parents watching this show a lot because it was on during daytime TV. So you would get like, if you stayed home sick or you're on vacation, you would get prices right. You would get love connection. You would get Judge Wapner. Oh, the Wapner. Yeah. In the 90s, you would get Oprah. It's something you would get. What time, Oprah? Come on, four o'clock. Oprah's on. That's right. Four o'clock. You had to miss it. Can't miss television.

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