The Commercial Break - It Ain't Easy Being Teen

Episode Date: February 6, 2024

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I don't need potential at this grown big age. Come on, Reddy, potential. On this episode of the commercial break... No one's giving free fed to all the kids. That's not happening. Stop it. Stop it. It might have happened one time where some junkie, you know, threw out some whatever.

There's some fed-melt pills happening, I tell you. But no one's giving free drugs away. That doesn't happen, because if that would happen, I wouldn't be here right now. I would be getting the free drugs. That's what I would be doing. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. ["Commercial Break"]

Oh yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is the girl who sits on our Bon Homie board of directors, Kristen Joy-Hodley. Best to you, Chris Hayes. Best to you, Brian. And best to you out there in the podcast universe. Thanks for joining us.

We use Bon Homie. I use Bon Homie because I figure we're going to do Word of the Day. There's no use in throwing it out in the trash then. I got to then use it. Exactly, incorporate it. It's a daily life. It's a daily life. One of my daughters last night that she wasn't being very bonhomie She had an 80 minute meltdown over an outfit that she had to wear Not even an outfit pajamas, and I was like honey you have to wear pajamas to bed

She wanted to wear like this full Easter dress And I'm like loves her. I know she does love her dresses, and I don't want to kill her spirit But at the same time like it's your Easter dress. It's for Easter. It's not special if you wear it all the time. It's just not. We got it like some stuff we got to save for the rainy day, you know what I'm saying? Or a special day. And we just can't do that. But an 80 minute meltdown and then at the end I just said you're not being very bond home. And she looked at me like, I said don't worry I just learned the word also. So all of us are learning new words.

Exactly. What's your word of the day today? You got a word of the day? I do have a word of the day today. Let's keep it going. Why not? I know. I got dying for content.

Let's go for it. Okay, okay. You ready? Yes, I am. Okay, the word for today is quotidian. Oh, quotidian. Quotidian. That's when you draw quotes on someone's tits.

It's close. And then you say literally. That's when you go literally with your hands on someone's nipples. Literally, quotidian. Would you like me to give you a quotidian? So. So, I'm going to assume this is derived from Greek language. Close, Latin.

Latin? Okay. All right. I think Greek is Latin. Exactly. What do you think? The Greek language. All right. And it is from the 14th century. Okay. So now it's an old word. I've got my whole life without quotidians. Yeah. Yeah. But it's a good one here. All right. So give me it in a sentence. That means, well, it means... Well, hold on. Give it to me in a sentence. Let me see if I could figure out what it means. I'm usually good at this kind of stuff. Okay. Washing the dishes was a quotidian task, but

she made the time pass quickly by listening to the commercial break. Ah, okay. Boring or tedious? It close. It's occurring every day, daily. Oh, a daily day. But mundane. But mundane. Mm-hmm mundane like the commercial break. I thought it was very fitting. Yeah there you go. I'm gonna call it the quotidian break. I'm literally gonna put that on a banner. I'm gonna put that on a banner and I'm gonna send it out to the universe. The commercial break. Quotidian. It's quotidian. It's boring and mundane and you have to listen to it every day. Alright okay that's a good one I like quotidian. That is boring and mundane and you have to listen to it every day. All right, okay.

That's a good one. I like Quotidian. That's right. Okay. Well, that wasn't right about the boobs, but you know, I'm a three year old. Well, that could maybe be the urban dictionary version. Yeah, okay.

Quotidian is where you do the literally on someone's boobs. Literally. With permission, of course. Okay. I don't want anybody running around Quotidian. In. They're getting in a kind of trouble. Don't get. I don't want anybody running around quotidian Yes, yes, so I'm It's gone wild a quote. Yeah. Oh, that's a good one

It's quotidian if we put that on a banner ad I think people would click on I mean They would click on it and then they would quickly figure out that it is Quotidian Bonhomi. Yeah. With our quotidian. That's right. It's Quotid, it's Quotidian, but Bonhomi. Right. There you go. Look at us. We're bringing words to the people and that, that's desperately needed because

even I find my language is getting dumbed down by all the stupid shit that I read on the internet. It's like I'm using always or amazing or the best or the most and nothing can be the most. Yeah, it's perfect. Is it really? Is it really? That's my favorite. I say that every three minutes.

You can't be your favorite every time or it's not your favorite. Favorite denotes it's one of a thing that can never be replicated because it is your favorite. You don't have multiple favorites. I guess you can have favorites, but that's when you're favoring something.

And that's a different way to use the word. Jeff called me out on that a little while back. It was like, give it, you said that the other song was your favorite song. Yeah. Like I know, but this one is my favorite. It's one of my favorites. It's my favorite.

This is another favorite. I tried to say it's one of my favorites now.'s my favorite. This is another favorite. I would try to say it's one of my favorites now. I dated a girl and we went to the high museum thinking that, you know, just to give, throw a little class into the whole situation. Right. I love that place. Classless relationship. We decided to class it up a little bit. So we go there and... Was it the night time like jazz? No, this was like daytime.

And it was actually a cool exhibit in like daytime and it was it was actually hours It was actually a cool exhibit in the sense that it was a Ferrari exhibit. Oh, yeah So that like the original Ferrari or whatever it was all about Ferrari. Were you calling on the high museum quote-unquote? Yes, I was quotidian Yes, I So Yeah, exactly. I didn't pay, I took me a minute to pick up on what you were saying, but yes.

I'm going to talk to the dry cleaner down the street. I'll be back in three to seven hours. I'm gonna talk to the decision maker at the high museum. They're probably good. They absolutely want to do some advertising with us. I have to go to the cheetah again. They're already a client. I know, but you know, a lot of relationship management going on there. Exactly, you gotta some advertising with this. I have to go to the cheetah again. They're already a client.

I know, but a lot of relationship management going on there. Exactly, you gotta keep up with that. If I don't show up at least once a day, they're gonna think, what do we think of that? They're spending $2,000 a month. We gotta keep that relationship going. I'm also spending $2,000 a month on the corporate card. So we go to this particular event,

it's like a Saturday afternoon. It doesn't really matter what day it was, why are you saying that? There's no relevance in the story. Checking myself as we talk. So we go and I find a lot of things amazing. So I'm like, wow, that's amazing. Wow, amazing, wow, amazing.

And I realized that maybe I say that word a little bit too much, it's like a crutch word for me, right? That's amazing, this's amazing. Wow, amazing. Wow, amazing. And I realized that maybe I say that word a little bit too much. It's like a crutch word for me, right? That's amazing. This is amazing. That's amazing. Or wow, wow, wow. I didn't say that. So me and this girl that I was dating,

we get into a huge argument because at one point she walks away from me, while we're looking at the exhibit, she walks away from me. Like, I can just tell, I guess that- She's irritated. She's irritated, she doesn't like me anymore. She never liked me in the first place.

She was just there for my house, whatever, okay, what? And so I walk over and she's like, I just need a minute. I'm like, what happened? And she goes, I can't, if you say the word amazing one more time, isn't there another word in your vocabulary to use to describe this art or these cars or whatever?

And I'm like, are we really arguing about the word amazing? She's like, it wouldn't be an argument if you didn't say it 500 times in the last hour. I'm so annoyed. And I was like, wow, this is amazing that you. It's amazing you're getting mad at me about this. But it was an argument that lasted, I think like a day and a half over my limited vocabulary, my limited adjective vocabulary.

That was the first of many red flags, so. It wasn't the first of many red flags. It was like the last of many red flags. It was the 50th of the red flags. 50th red flag. So I wanted to talk about this. I go to Starbucks yesterday and I know all the people at the Starbucks because I go there every morning.

It's your little getaway. It is my getaway. It really is It's my 15 minutes alone in the morning check myself before I wreck myself kind of thing and I got a little pop of caffeine I feel good. I check the download stats and then I feel bad and then I Look at how much money we're making I want to crash into the Starbucks, but I don't because I've got, there are people there who I know now, who are very friendly and I like them. As people, as a group, a collective group,

they're very nice. Did I spell your name with a Y? They do know how to spell my name. But they don't even have to spell my name. Half the time I walk in and they're already making it, it's already there for me. And so that's that kind of- That's amazing.

It is amazing. You're amazing. It's amazing. This is amazing. You're amazing. It's amazing. This is amazing. Everything's my favorite. So I go in and one of the younger ladies that's working there is there with her boyfriend but she's not working,

she's sitting at one of the tables. And she's like, Brian! She's like one of these happy, smiley, you know, Brian! Good morning! And I'm like, oh hey, how are you? Yeah, I'm good! And so I'm sitting there talking to her and her boyfriend,

who also works at the Starbucks by the way and She says you've got to try our new EVOO Creamy latte frate. I've heard about those and I'm like what and she goes the extra virgin olive oil. She goes our new EVOO Cold brew and cream and I'm like, did you say like extra virgin olive oil? She's like, it's amazing And I'm like, did you say like extra virgin olive oil? She's like, it's amazing. And I go, why in the world would they put olive oil in coffee? She says it's, they put it in the foam to make it extra creamy, right?

And I thought to myself, cream is already extra creamy. Like we don't need extra creamy cream. And then you're gonna fluff up some EVOO and put it on top of my cream. I, the only thing that I could think at that moment was if smelling coffee makes me run to the bathroom every morning, taking extra virgin olive oil, foam and cream inside of my coffee is a way to slide

every bit of food that came into me in the last 24 hours out. And I was all about it. I'm like, all right, okay, I'll try it. I have not tried it. I didn't try it this time, just a cup of coffee was already ready. So I was like, all right, okay, I'll try it. I have not tried it I didn't try this time a cup of coffee was already ready So I was like, I don't want a two cups of coffee, but I'm going to try tomorrow I'm gonna let you know how it goes. Please do I have heard about this and hey, I I go through tons of olive oil on a regular basis. Yeah, we do cook with it

I put it in you know dressing salads the whole thing. I use it for my hair and you know, dressing, salads, the whole thing. I use it for my hair, my skin. You put Gizzle Drizzle in your hair? Yeah, it's a good mask. You're like that guy Ed on 90 Day Fiancé, who puts mayonnaise in his hair. Yeah, once a month. Once a month?

You put olive oil in your hair? Yeah, and just do a little mask, like a little homemade mask. Anyways. Do you put like, port on yourself? Well, I usually just do kind of port in my my hands them put it into the ends. Do you don't like stuff into the shower and douse myself? I'm just curious how this goes. I never know. I didn't know you put olive oil in your hair Yeah, you can this is I mean you got beautiful hair, so I can't argue with the results

But the question is how does this all go down? Do you like go to the kitchen? Take out your EVO that you just cooked you and Jeff dinner last night naked from the waist down? And then Jeff's waiting there in his kitchen. I imagine he has like a kitchen frock, like a little apron, right? With a hole cut out in the bottom. And it said D's nuts are cooking tonight. D's nuts are for dinner. What's for dinner? D's nuts are for dinner. What's for dinner? D's nuts. D's nuts. Okay, so the whole scene going on.

And then you say, honey, I've got to do my EVO tonight. And he says, great, I'll participate. And so then do you guys, do you go into the bathroom? He doesn't participate. Oh, he doesn't like help you with the hair? No. Oh, okay, all right, maybe he should. I can do it on my own.

I know, but maybe this could be like a little foreplay. Then we can just get all oily and oil up. Listen, this is what I'm thinking is that let it just drip off your hair. Like literally do an EVO shower where you guys just pouring EVO all over each other. I mean, I am so excited about this. Honestly, I love this.

I hope you try this. I'm going to. Because I'm too germapobic to do it. It's about time for that mask. It's some kind of mask. So then you pour a little bit in your hands and then you just run it through your hair. Yeah, and comb it through. And then you could kind of mask. So then you pour a little bit in your hands and then you just run it through your hair. Yeah, and comb it through.

And then you could kind of twist it up and just leave it to sit for 30 minutes or so. Or wash a show. And then you wash it out. Yeah. Wow. They do hot oil scalp massages too, like sometimes for when you go to a spa.

Oh, okay. So they put like warm oil in your hair and it's EVOO is what they're doing or is it some kind of specialized hair product? Yeah, I mean, the last one I did was the EVOO. Wow, I had no idea this was going on. EVOO is, I mean, has been a staple in my house, but I have never tried the coffee.

Well, I've never tried it with coffee. So I'm very interested to hear. I am interested too. Well, who came up with this idea? Are the Italians doing this? Are the Italians doing this? Are the French doing this? Are we borrowing this? I did not have EWO in Italy,

went in my coffee when I did, when I went. But now, you know, I'm thinking about something. When I went to- Must be something to it. When I went to London. When I went to London, at the Starbucks, the very big Starbucks in the train station, of which there was like three people in this huge Starbucks.

And then there was like a hundred people in like the local coffee shop that was also right across the hallway and it's like no one cares for Starbucks across I mean I don't say no one cares but it's certainly not as popular if there was a Starbucks here and a local coffee shop the Starbucks would be packed in local coffee shop would have a couple people in it. They like to support local usually. Yeah I think they feel like Starbucks is just another crappy American thing that's been transported over here, like McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken

for whatever reason, that's a hit over there. Anyway, I go to London, I go to the train station, and the couple days that I was there, the four days mornings that I was there, I went, I walked, and they had EVOO bottles. They had this huge circular setup, and all around the glass, they had bottles of EVOO. And so now I'm wondering if this is a a thing that was being done across the season.

They just brought it over. Maybe. But I am so happy to try it. I just have to try it near a bathroom that I like, not the actual Starbucks bathroom, because I know that's getting blown up three times an hour. You don't know how many times I'm sitting at that. Why don't you just get it and then take it home? That's what I'm gonna do.

Yeah. Yeah. And then I'll drink it here. And then you can have your conference as well. My morning press conference. Yeah, I drove the kids to school today was I'm like I'm driving the kids to school now Just give the way that the schedule works out and it's an it's an addendum to the morning press conference Is when the tough questions are asked, you know what I'm saying?

You know like the White House secretary things to think about from them from the morning press conference And then they they follow up they follow up and there's so many things flying by the window that then there's a lot of questions to be asked like Why is the moon out? Why is there only one moon? Why can't I look at the Sun? Why are the trees green? So many questions of which I like to answer and I'm probably getting so much of it wrong They're gonna be just as dumb as I am because I don't know but I make it up as I go along I'm like, oh chloroform. That's why the trees They're gonna go to school and be like daddy uses chloroform to make the trees green people are gonna be like what daddy is what

So I just start telling them to ask their teacher. Yeah But you know, I know the way to school I also want to be looked at is like the cool dad that answered all the questions You know, I also want to be looked at is like the cool dad that answered all the questions. So I try my best to be really, I want them to have knowledge and I want that knowledge to come from somewhere. They're too young. They'll have a chance to get the facts later. I'm just going to share some information that they can think in their heads right now. Okay. We're going on like a two night getaway to my parents house. Like we do this often, right? It's the one place we can go without spending any money, which is exactly how much money we have right now.

So, unbelievable. So- That's a nice little getaway, the lake. Yeah, we love it. It's so much fun. It was the right move. You know, my dad had originally gotten a mountain house,

which you and I visited a number of times. And we really liked that. But it's limited in scope in the sense that you go there for the weekend, but you're staying there for the weekend. It was literally on top of a mountain. You had to get up a dirt road. It was not easy to get down. And even when you did get down,

there was nothing within like 30 miles. So you had at least an hour to drive. There's like the tiniest little convenient store that has old stuff. Stuff that hasn't been touched. Like moon pies from the 70s. Right? But they're still valid because moon pies don't expire.

Twinkies, I don't know if you're sure they make those anymore, but there's like twinkies in there. Yeah, that convenience store was nothing. And then they had a pigly wiggly down the street. Oh, right now the pigly wiggly is big. You know, and the pigly wiggly was big. That's the big hit in this particular part of the world, north toward the mountains. So anyway, so, but my dad and my stepmom started to realize that as we all kind of got our own lives and wives and all

that other shit that comes along with being an adult, that the trips up there were becoming less and less frequent and they, as they retired, didn't want to live there because they were afraid that we wouldn't come up as often and it would be boring. They don't have a chance to have friends or anything. So they moved to a lake and a big community with a lot of other boaters and retired people and whatever near a major. My dad did the same. Yeah. It's a smart move because now you can guarantee that the kids are going to come

up at least during the spring and summer because there's lots of fun. There's boating and lakes and pools and all that other stuff. And it's not too far off the beaten path in 30 minutes, you can be in a downtown Clemson area, right? So there's a lot going on there. So we're going to this, so we go there often because we have kids and that's just an easy couple hour drive up there, spend the weekend. See, and the grandparents love the kids.

So Astrid and I get a little bit of a break. So they both have, or a couple of my kids have suitcases, like Mickey and Elsa, and you know, we just got all these suitcases, right? They're not suitcases, they're just plastic boxes. It looks like a suitcase, but it's just really a cheap piece of crap, right? But they are so excited,

because now they have in their heads that they too can pack their own suitcases. So they get out their suitcases last night, they're so excited because now they have in their heads that they too can pack their own suitcase So they get out their suitcases last night. They're so excited I can we can I pack my own suitcase can I bring my suitcase and so usually we try and just take as little as possible But this time I'm like okay permitted like you guys can do this for sure I'll see what you got. Yeah, let's see what you got Well now it was five days before we go to this fucking place right and so we're packing a little bit early So I said let's pack a go to this fucking place, right? And so we're packing a little bit early. So I said, let's pack a little bit at a time, right?

We'll pack our underwear tonight and our socks. So I get in this discussion with one of my kids and he's like, how many underwears do I need to bring? And I'm like, let's bring three. One for each day, the two days that we're gonna be there. And then an extra just in case you shit yourself. And, which, you know, isn't likely to happen, but also isn't out of the realm of possibility.

Daddy also brings extra underwear on his trips in case I shit myself. This is a good rule of thumb. It's a good rule of thumb to always have underwear. Even though there's washers and dryers up there, it would be good if we had an extra pair of pants. So he goes, he brings a three, and then he brings three socks, we have that discussion.

And then one of my other kids, she is going behind him. So I'm paying attention to the one suitcase and not paying attention to the other suitcase. And I turn around and literally the entire bedroom is in this kid's suitcase. It's like overflowing with clothes and shit, right? And I'm like, whoa, honey. We started early. She is

Yeah, we don't need we don't need three pairs of You know, we don't need three swimsuits. We don't need 12 stuffies We don't need six books and then she's like oh, but what do I what should I bring and I'm like well I said let's pack underwear and socks today, and then tomorrow we'll get to other stuff, right? And so I'm like, how many? And I go, three, three's good. It's a good rule of thumb. So she goes over, she's got a bunch,

she's got like 10 pairs of underwear in this thing already. So she takes them out, she throws them all over the place. And she's like, okay, I'll count. And I go, okay, good. And she goes, one, one, one, one, two, two, three, three. And I go, hey, that's not how it goes. It's not one, one, one, one, two, two, three, three.

That's how we ended up with multiple children. We were counting the wrong way. Exactly. We did the wrong counting. It's day one, one, one, one, one. I'm like, you know, one, two, three. That's how you do it. You do it, one, two, three.

And this kid is like, no, no, no, dad, dad, dad, dad. Let me do it. Let me do it. Let me do it. One, one, one. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. It's one, two, three. One, one. And she goes,'m like, no, no, no, no, no. It's one, two, three, one, one. And she goes, this is what she said to me. She goes, my suitcase, my counting, I get to do it.

And I was like, oh, Mrs. Attitude Rudy. What is going on with you? We're gonna have a meltdown if we don't have 70 pairs of underwear, what do we need? And so eventually she told me that she wants, she wants colors. She wants multiple options. Well, the options thing is for real. What is she doing? Going on a date? I mean, multiple underwear options. Who's she gonna meet up there? Come on. I like, I'm just saying, I like to have multiple options. You probably do too. Oh, Chrissy, I'm the worst packer ever.

I mean, you know, because you don't, you'm the worst packer ever. Astrid hates me. You know, because you check the weather before you leave, but anything can happen. But I mean, there's no weather in my vault. You don't be too cold, you don't be too hot, you don't be wet, you need to have, also you may just, I feel that shirt. Not one day.

I know, I'm with you this. And this is why Astrid hates me so much. Astrid is so organized. And she's like, one outfit for each day and then we'll bring a couple little extra things. You know, we went overseas for a month over the summer to go visit relatives and stuff. Big trip, everyone's going, we have like, you know, we don't want to bring as few suitcases as possible because it's just a matter of carrying them all around Europe, right? We're

gonna make multiple stops and go to multiple places. It's just we don't want to be a big pain in the ass. So Astrid starts to get packing and then she says, put all the stuff that you want over here in this specific area and I'll fold it up and I'll pack it. I'm going to try and get both of our stuff into one suitcase. And I'm like, okay. Whoa, that's a task. Yes. So every day I just keep adding to the pile and adding to the pile and adding to the

pile and she's like, you have 32 t-shirts. And I go, I know we're gonna be gone for like 28 days. And she's like, but you don't need a t-shirt for every single day. I go, I know I might need two. And she goes, you're gonna have to get it out of your head that you need to change t-shirts every time that, you know, perspiration even thinks about coming out of your body.

You don't have to do that. And I'm like, but honey, you know, what if I don't like the blue shirt on the Tuesday? And she's like, do you not think they have washers and dryers over there? We'll be okay. Like bring five t-shirts, bring a week's worth of t-shirts, and then we can always wash them and dry them. We're gonna have, you know, be in multiple Airbnb's, we can do this. And I'm like, but honey, this makes me nervous.

It makes me nervous just- One, one, one, one, one. I wonder where she got it from. Oh, she got it from Daddy. And listen, to be fair to me, I am a complete fucking moron. So, let's be fair to you. Let's be fair to me,

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That ending makes me laugh every time. What? Give me something to look forward to. After I get out of the studio. Yeah, I'm not, you know, we do commercials. Magic Spoon. Magic Spoon is good. If you just heard the Magic Spoon commercial, Magic Spoon. It's tasty. It's very tasty. High in protein. I mean, I don't need to repeat the commercial here, but they're a sponsor of the show.

And I do like their product. I really do. I've got a bunch of it in my, in my, whatever you call that, the pantry, the area where the kids yell and scream. The pantry is like a congregating plant. Yeah, beg for candy and sweets and juices and all that shit. I wanted to, I don't know if you've been keeping up with this,

but the five biggest social media platforms are currently sitting in Capitol Hill, being grilled by those senators of the internet select committee or whatever. And so I was watching some of it this morning and I was thinking to myself, wow, social media has changed our lives in so many ways. The internet in general, if you've been alive that long,

has changed our life in so many ways. And social media, a lot of it is negative. It's not good. And I think we can objectively say that. There is a lot of joy to be found on social media. A lot of sharing, a lot of good news stories, a lot of good ways to keep up with people that you may not. Take pictures.

Yeah, all that other stuff. But in general, you have to weigh that with all of the negativity that goes on there, the bullying and the, you know, propagation of misinformation and drug dealing and, you know, driving kids to suicide and all this other stuff. It's really terrible. And for the people who are affected by this in a negative way, there is nothing that they can do because the social media companies are held harmless. They cannot be sued. There's no organization. There's no trade

organization. There's nothing. It's basically the wild fucking west. And some people say that drives innovation. I might agree. But at the same time, like, I think it was one of the senators said this, and I can't remember which senator said this. And by the way, this is like, there's bipartisan support, unanimous bipartisan support to do something to rein these companies in and make them regulate it somehow, be held responsible for some of the stuff that goes on in their platforms, some of the stuff that goes on in their platforms. We're talking about when it comes to children, like when it comes to adults, you make your own case, you do your own thing, you know, your big boys and girls.

You feel jealous at the Instagram post. That's right. When you're a big boy, you're free to feel jealous. You're feel free to look at as many nipples as you want with inspirational posts under them. Quotidian. That's what a quotidian is. It's a post underneath an inspirational quote underneath a picture of tits. It's quotidian. There you go. We figured it all out. It came full circle. So I'm watching this and I'm like, okay, you know,

all right, there's Zuckerberg and Shu Chu, the guy from TikTok and there's Evan from Snapchat. There's the dude from Discord and then there's someone from Twitter. And they're all up there and they're all getting real. Not Musk. No, Musk is not gonna show up to that. No, no, no, no, no, no.

I think you would be hard pressed to find him dragged in front of Congress because he has Congress over a barrel. He's controlling a lot of the internet with his flying the sky bullshit. Starlink. Starlink that you can see basically with your blind eye. Anyway, I digress. So, this one of these senators says, of bolts fell out of a door on a plane, and 700 to 800 aircraft were grounded immediately and no one objected because someone could

have died. One person could have died and that would have shocked the world. We would all have been super upset about this. We grounded the planes to try and figure out what we should do about this. But many, many, many people can attribute death, somebody's death, to social media, like a direct correlation between these two, and we do nothing about it, right? And she said this. She said, because the social media companies are so powerful, so vastly rich that they can basically impose their will by just lobbying. So, Markberg gets up there and this lady says,

why don't you support this particular bill? And he says, well, we support a lot of what the bill is, but we have our own bill that we would like to submit. We regulate ourselves. We regulate ourselves. We're doing it ourselves. Can't you guys see this? We're doing such a good job. Don't worry. You don't trust this face? Don't worry about us. Happy face. We got it under control. It's all good, Chrissy. I don't know why you're bothering.

Look at me. Yeah. I have a friendly face. What do I do? What's the problem? It's like that guy, Suthu, from TikTok. Yeah. He's like, what?

Uh-huh. What? I'm here. I protect everybody. I care about your children. Look, your child right now is in elementary school in the restroom. I've got a camera there. I can see her. It's kind of... I'm taking care of the kids. I got the kids.

This is data. Please. Those fentanyl pills, they're being sold everywhere. What do you want me to do? This is a reflection of everything else that's going on in town. Marcus Zuckerberg had the balls to say, not only do I not support your bill, but I don't support your bill because I wrote

my own bill and I would like you to support my bill. You're not in Congress! What the fuck is going on? I realize these companies talk with congressional leaders and they find a way to make it happen, but it's amazing to me that Zuck-Tuck up there can get up this fresh-faced, baby-faced, freckled little face. I have freckles too, sir, by the way, I'm not sure, you know, freckled little face up there and he can tell the ranking members that basically, I don't support your bill because I wrote my own bill. How crazy is that for that kid to be in that position? Guess you never know until you try, but I mean, I am so aghast at what he said. Yeah, I mean, they don't wanna change.

They'll do whatever they cannot do. Well, the big thing is, is that the only way that things are going to really change for these companies is if the courtroom doors open. If someone's allowed to go in there and sue and be in front of a jury and give the facts, give the evidence, my child was on Snapchat.

He bought medication that he thought was safe and then it was a fentanyl pill and he died. And that was because Snapchat didn't take the appropriate action to stop the drug dealing from happening. This person has been obviously doing this for years on your platform and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then when they get a $100 million lawsuit that rolls in the favor of the plaintiff,

then things start to change because they go, uh-oh, if this happened with one case, then if we have 300 other cases like this, now we're talking about billions of dollars, and that's a problem, right? So we better take action on this. I had a friend who, I have two friends who worked for social media companies, I won't say which, worked for social media companies in Europe, and their job was to be on the safety and regulation teams. So when a post got flagged or an instant message got flagged, it got sent through some kind of AI. And then if AI decided that that post looked like it could be whatever,

think of all the bad things in the world that you can think of. It got sent to human beings who then reviewed the post with their eyeballs. I've heard, I've heard horror stories about the people that have to look at all this stuff. I was floored at the process in which these folks to work in that division have to go through. First of all, they separated into multiple bad things, right? Think of all the bad thing piles that you can see on the internet or anywhere in the world, and then they separate that into multiple bad thing piles, and they make a the internet or anywhere in the world. And then they separate that into multiple bad thing piles and they make a determination about how bad, bad things are.

And then you get swapped in and out so that you don't have to be subjected to certain types of things for long periods of time. We're talking like you might be there for three months and then you move on to the next thing and then you might come back a couple of years later or whatever. They also have to take like mandatory mental health breaks

where they go and they talk to therapists and Take a couple days off so they can go see the world and not through this lens that they've been seeing it through Mm-hmm if it's that fucking bad if it's that fucking bad then isn't like I'm not talking about Grown ass adults who can make the decisions about what they see and what they don't see you There's a there's a set this may contain sensitive content. Do you want to see it? Yes or no? Talking about children who are being exploited by these companies and then advertised to because they can make money

off of them, right? And then all these bad things are rolling through the screens of the kids and it's like, holy shit. The worst thing that I saw before the age, I was 13 years old, the worst thing that I saw was like a knockoff, you know, softcore porn, cinemax horror movie, and the Sears catalog, where I thought I saw a shape of a nipple on one of the bra section things. That's the worst thing I was subjected to, right? And I can't imagine. Well, let's not forget about your encyclopedia collection. Oh, yeah,

I had the encyclopedia. Where you looked at the mass the mass murderer. I did well that's when I turn yeah, okay All right, I said the worst thing I saw before I was ten because when I was 12 I got the time life serial killer collection of my dad's let me get I Was like yeah dad Who's John Wayne Gacy because he grew up, you know, he like lived right down the street, right? At the same time when I was around, right? Or I was, I mean, I was being born. I was in that, like in the same neighborhood.

And I thought to myself, why not me? Like, what was wrong with me? What was wrong with me? Why didn't he pick me? Why did he pick me? My dad was like, you're obnoxious. From the day that you were born, son. So if time life serial, and by the way,

there were no particularly gory images in that time life series. It was just a lot, there were descriptions of stuff, but it wasn't like particularly gory. Yeah, no, I mean, you can see so much. It's crazy, it's scary. But I don't want to- Glad I don't have a small chest.

I know, God damn, master and I were talking about it while I was watching this and it's like, it's so depressing, it's just so depressing. And talking about it. Well, I was watching this and it's like, it's so depressing. It's just so depressing. And talking to my chiropractor the other day and the guy says, he has teenage children. And he's like, bro, I wish my kids were your age because when they get big, the problems get super complicated

and there's no easy answer. And they're having existential crises at like 13 years old now because of social media, AI, the internet, all this stuff. They're like questioning their existence because there's so much bad shit coming at them at all times. They are like, am I really just gonna work a job for the rest of my life

and then die? Yes, that's what you're going to do. That's what happens. And I said, yeah, our parents probably said that too. And he goes, I strongly disagree with you. And he convinced me that I was wrong. He said, we have more in common with how our grandparents raised our parents than we do with our own children

at this age because we didn't have any of this. Like we didn't even have phones in our room, right? Of some of us didn't have phones in our room. We certainly didn't have them in our pocket 24 hours a day where we could be subjected to anything and everything. And it's just like, it's so scary. But there was one CEO that was missing from this group that I really think needs to be up there.

And that is the next door CEO. Where is the next door CEO? Well, that's true. If we're gonna protect our children, we need to protect our elderly too from that fucking next door app. Let me explain why. I think it started off as a good idea.

I remember getting on it years ago and thinking, okay, great, somebody wants to get rid of a table. They left it out and anybody can come pick it up. Car broken into down the street. Good information to know. Right, then I moved and got on it again. I was like, what the hell's happening on here now? Chrissy, we have to protect our elderly.

We have to protect our elderly. This app is fucking insane. People are fucking loony tune on this app. Anything where people can comment and say what they want behind a screen just becomes crazy. But the crazy thing is that they're really, like it's a kind of anonymous, but not really because most old people put their actual names on there

like Mary Jane Ruckitogel, 3575, you know, Zip Zop Lane. That's their username and you're like, what? So I go on this next door because there's some alert about some action happening down the street or something. I'm like, oh, okay. I haven't been on next door in years. And then I start scrolling and I realized that the elderly people are just as crazy as the teenagers.

They really are. And so there's this old lady, Mary Jane Rappelpoppel, whatever her name is, right? Lives down the street or, I don't know, she's in the neighborhood that we live in and she goes I ordered groceries to my house And they were delivered somewhere else if anybody knows where they are please call my cell phone That 3 4 4 4 7 4 4 Then she puts a picture of

The last time groceries got delivered to her house and what they look like And she's like apples, milk, tampons for my young daughter. And I'm like, oh my god, lady, she puts the picture and it's got her fucking mailbox address right there. And I'm like, have you no sense in your head? Another lady's like, is this a tiger in our neighborhood? It's a fucking raccoon. And she's like spotted tiger. Has anybody heard of loose animals from the zoo or a circus? I spotted a tiger and she's got this picture of a raccoon.

But it's not a joke. It's not a joke. She's like responding to people. Someone's like, someone's like, someone's like, someone's like, someone's like,

someone's like, someone's like, someone's like, someone's like, someone's like, someone's like, someone's like, someone's like,

someone's like, someone's like, someone's like, someone's like, someone's like, someone's like, someone's like, someone's like,

someone's like, someone's like, someone's like, someone's like, them this morning and she's like, I didn't know there was such a thing as a trash tiger. Please tell me more. I'm in danger. One lady wrote, I don't know what to do. My oven won't turn on. Can please someone please help me call this number? And she's got like this, like this selfie where she's half in half out of the photograph. She's taking a picture and she's like,

ah, we must save the elderly. The next door is driving them crazy. It's insane. Yeah, I guess kind of their social media platform, isn't it? And then they post pictures of random people walking down the street like, this Mexican spotted. I'm like, okay, all right, what the fuck? All right, suspicious Mexican spotted.

Like suspicious Mexican, what? Fuck. All right. Suspicious Mexican spotted. Yeah. Suspicious Mexican. What? Suspicious old lady posting random racist shit on next door. Right. It is so crazy. I know I never get a hold of it. I posted one time on that, one time, the beginning of the pandemic. I wrote this little thing and I'm like, this is a crazy time. I just wrote it. I wrote it on a bunch of platforms. I don't know why I wrote it, maybe for attention.

I don't know what I was doing. That was lonely. It was an early pandemic. I just wrote it. I wrote it on a bunch of platforms. I don't know why I wrote it, maybe for attention. I don't know what I was doing. I was lonely. It was the early pandemic. We had no listeners. I was just like, okay, let me write something nice. So I was like, oh, what a mixed up crazy time. I think we'd all come together and help each other in this situation, neighbors be neighbors

and friends be friends and let's all gather. Kumbaya moment, right? Whatever, gather by the campfire. Literally, I know to turn into the biggest shit storm that's ever happened. But it's like day two of the pandemic. And I'm like, okay, I'll send a little love out there. I got hundreds of comments.

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Let the lady do her work if she is a prostitute. Second of all, she's probably just a lady. She's just having meetings or something. Yeah, she's just going to Starbucks. That hot stone massage place up in the Japanese, you know, whatever it is, a massage parlor that's given, you know, hack jacks or whatever. You should see the posts on, no, no, everybody's a flame about the jackshack down the street, you know?

These men are ruining our society, you know, stop them, whores and tramps and sluts all of them. It's like, okay, grandma, settle down. Spotted on OAN, you know? My favorite is that, you know, multiple things are happening, And I'm not saying this doesn't happen. I'm saying I'm sure this doesn't happen as frequently as I see it on next door, that like spotted pamphlet on my car,

this is how they traffic you. And I'm like, how do they traffic you? They put the pamphlet there to indicate that you're the one they gotta take down. You're 78. I don't think they're trafficking 78 year olds. I mean, I'm sure there's a market for it, but I don't think they're trafficking 78 year olds. I mean, I'm sure there's a market for it But yeah, I don't think they're trafficking you grandma. You're okay, right? I read it on OAN. Oh, you did

It must be true must be totally legitimate if you read it on OAN So, you know, we definitely have to do something about the kids We've got to protect the elderly too because we do they're they're just as crazy They are going insane on this next door get if you haven't been on next door and you want a real nice night of hilarity You should have seen the one after Halloween That way I got on there after Halloween for something and you know because it's like so into years of post and whatever I look It was nuts.

Yeah. Nuts about, you know, hoodlums, vandalums, people. Some people were nice. Yeah. But I had my bucket of candy stolen. Well, it cares that kid that did it and they show like a rain camera. I know. I know they will post pictures of people.

I'm like, well, you're the one who left the bucket of candy out there. Yeah. One time there was a UPS guy with a brown uniform, but she couldn't see the UPS sign, and she was like, call the police. UPS man with no UPS patch. I'm in danger. These are not jokes, they're real.

One lady was like, did your children get any of these? And they're like sweet tarts, right? They look exactly like fentanyl pills. Don't give to children, report to police immediately. And I'm like, what the fuck, they're sweet tarts lady. No one's giving free fentanyl to the kids. That's not happening. Stop it, stop it.

It might have happened one time where some junkie, you know, threw out some whatever, so here are some fentanyl pills, have a nice night. But no one's giving free drugs away. That doesn't happen because if that would happen I wouldn't be here right now. I would be getting the free drugs That's what I would be doing. I want my candy. I want my candy candy candy. I'm literally shaking and sweating daddy I'm puking. I'm in the fetal position. Ah We should do a next door read.

We should. A next door comments. That's what we're gonna do. Oh, you put it in the notebook. Please do. Actually, let's not put it in the notebook because we'll never do it. No, actually.

We really will never remember it. Yeah, we'll never remember it. I'm gonna put it on there. I think we need to do a segment on the notebook. Well, we said we were gonna do that this season. So we're gonna do that. Put that in the notebook and we'll never do the notebook, notebook, season segment.

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and boy do we love to hear it. Anyway, take a listen to our sponsors and let's get back to the show. All right, I got so excited about this. I decided to pull up the next door. Listen, here we go, ready? Here, uh, uh,

uh, uh, Leslie says, I heard a lot of birds chirping loudly outside this morning and I went to look. There was an enormous amount of black birds flying and landing on my backyard and pecking There were a few lone birds, but most of them were swirling in groups. I couldn't easily tell which color they were They look mostly black or dark gray. I couldn't get pictures because I've never used the cell phone before

They spotted me and then they flew away I've never seen this behavior before. Has anyone else noticed, are the birds in danger? Should I call animal control? That's a flack of fucking bird's-lead. I know, I just saw it happen actually in our park the other day and I just thought it was cool looking. I didn't write on next door.

You didn't write on next door? I did not even have to scroll to find that post. I didn't even have to scroll. It's a crazy, this is right there for you. So much fun. Hey, I read a like a Dear Abby type column, I even read Dear Abby, I read a Dear Abby and I thought it was a interesting topic to bring up.

Now I'll tell you what Dear Abby said. Do you want me to just read it? Yeah. Okay. Sorry, Abby. I'm gonna take your material here. Okay. Oh, it is Dear Abby. Abby dear Abby after 17 years of marriage I learned to my dismay that when I was 22 when he was 22 my husband had a long-term relationship with a 16 year old girl

He insisted that she lied about her age and told him she was 20 But even after finding out her true age She went on to date her her mother was okay with it as well as other family members who all knew she was underage. It makes me so sick to my stomach. They engaged in sexual activity when she was underage. They were even engaged, they were even engaged until she cheated. I'm livid because he tried to say that he told me she was underage, but he never did. I know this.

I would never have dated or married someone. I know this. I would never have dated or married someone I know this I would never have dated or Married someone who knowingly had sex with an underage girl. I've been questioning I've been questioning myself a lot about this marriage, but this sent me over the top I'm over 17 years. So this guy is at least in his 50s. I would imagine 40s 50s Am I overreacting because he was young and dumb and did something stupid that'll never do again as he puts it Can't signed can't get over it

Sounds like you're already over it sounds like you're already heading for divorce All right, even before the underage story and if someone is making you sick to your stomach like that then I mean listen It's not a good thing. I don't suggest any 22 year old data 16 year year old. That's not what I'm saying, but what state was this in? I don't know. They don't, they don't give that kind of identifying information. I think the whole point of Dear Abby is to keep everything real anonymous. I'm just saying, yeah, true Southern States, I think it's still legal to get married at like 14 or something with parents permission. Yeah, in some Southern States or some states, it's still legal to get married the age of consent at least in the state of Georgia is 16 years old Which can't be in a power of authority. You can't have any kind of like you can't be a coach or teacher

Yeah, bus driver, whatever you can't have some position of authority over that child because then that's considered grooming And I don't think it's legal for 22 year olds to have sex with 16 year olds I don't know. I think age of consent means year olds to have sex with 16 year olds. I don't know. I think age of consent means you can have sex with other 16 year olds. Basically is what it means. Um, but I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I haven't checked the law. Yeah. I'm not checking the law for any particular reason. Um, but dear Abby or Abby. I'm curious to what she says. Cause I know what I would say is he like, yeah, get over it.

That's what she said, get over it. It's happened a really long time ago. You guys have been married for 17 years. What? Now? Yeah. Why now? Why now are you upset about this?

I think you're right about this. And also how was this discovered 17 years later? Like, what does he have like a, no, if he's got like a little box of her 16 year old underwear or something He's got tiger tiger beat. Yeah, that's a little different Like how was this discovered don't know 17 years later? I have no idea does it did that literally I read what I mean I've read what was written it says dear can't get over it the most important line in your letter as far as I'm concerned is this one Sentence I've been questioning myself a lot about this marriage. The first item on your agenda

should be to make an appointment with a licensed marriage and family therapist so you and your husband could start working on what's wrong with your relationship. His feelings for that girl were sincere. He would have married her had she not cheated on him. If he had been, if he has been faithful to you and a caring husband since you're the beginning of your marriage, it's time to forgive him for his youthful indiscretion, which was encouraged by the girl's entire family. Period. In the sentence. That's all she says. So, um, yeah. Like, what are you going to do? This wasn't like he groomed her. I mean,

I don't know because there's such limited information but it sounds like everybody was on board with us at the time. They were all like, yeah, you guys are in love, whatever. I'm not saying that that makes it right. I'm just saying- Yeah, well, she lied at the beginning too as you would do as I did when I was 16.

You know, talking to an older, cute older guy, yeah. This happened to me also. I dated a girl said she was 21 and I found out when we went to blockbuster that she wasn't 21 because you needed to be 21 in order to have a blockbuster card or whatever it was. Do you remember this story? For those of you who don't know what blockbuster is. Yeah, oh yeah, that's true.

Some reason she was under the age of having a blockbuster card and I didn't realize That she was that age she had lied about it basically and that startled me and I Discontinued the relationship because I was no movie for you. Yeah, no movie for you And I really wanted to see Fatal attraction, that's right I would have wanted to see Family Zoo too. Family Matters. Family First. Family First.

Fly By Night. Family First, that was crazy. Oh my God. Oh, by the way, I found more. Family first, that was crazy. Oh my God. Oh, by the way, I found more episodes and that's like the least crazy of the episodes. And we didn't even get to the heart of what happened. We may have to go back to that one. I just don't know if I get to digest it

two episodes in a row. No, back to back. It's a little much. Yeah, that guy's screaming at the time. It's like, I say that as a guy who just screams into the microphone the whole episode, but you know, you like it. I don't, okay.

Yeah, this is, that's a complicated topic, but let's put aside the fact that she had a relationship with this 16 year old girl. When you are so fluffed about something that happened so long ago, it's clear that you're just not interested in your husband anymore, anyway. And you're finding a reason.

You're finding a reason to be upset with him. And I don't know, but you know, could be completely opposite. Maybe she thinks for some reason he did coerce this girl into a relationship, or she has some reason to believe he was grooming her or something like that. That was not based off what she said. Not based off what she said, yeah. And you know, who's to say that he's lying or he's not lying. But I was surprised by Dear Abby's reaction.

I was. That was my reaction. Yeah. Yeah. But I was a little surprised because when I read it at first I was like, oh shit, that's kind of gross, you know? But then she pointed out that the one sentence and the whole thing was, I've been questioning myself a lot about this marriage lately. Oh, I imagine that's what Astrid's thinking all the time.

She's probably, I've been questioning myself a lot about this marriage. Not because of my youthful indiscretions, but because of my current, yeah, my current indiscretions. My current situation. My business acumen. Or lack of error. Can cut both ways. And it also made me think about our Ask TCB from the other day. Yes.

Where the girl had a sister who wanted to date their step brother. So there was multiple marriages involved, but just know they don't have more blood related, but there was a divorce involved and some time had gone by. And one of her steps sister had another, they had another step brother from another marriage

and they all remained friendly. And then the step sister wanted to date the step brother who they were not blood related, they were related by marriage and the divorce, it happens. They were no longer family members technically. They were soulmates. And they were soulmates. And that's what she said.

And that's how she described it. And I thought to myself, yeah, why the fuck not actually actually and the more that I thought about that the more entrenched I got in that position and I don't know why but it stuck with me. I was like, you know Fuck that like okay. It's a little weird. It's a little unconventional. Yeah, I admit that but you know It takes all kinds and you find people everywhere, you know on earth and you know technically Technically when Astrid and I married, we became family members and family members. We became like step-second cousins. Yes.

And then we're also married. So I entrenched myself in this position because I don't want anyone throwing stones in my direction when I became step-second cousins-in-laws or something like that. He came into the family. I came into the family and then I came into the family. I came into the family and then I came into the family. I came into the family two different ways is basically how it happened. He did.

Yeah. It's kind of weird, but you know, whatever. Don't ask me how to explain how exactly that happened because no one knows. We just know that there's some, it's like true detective. There's a lot of circles involved. That's true.

There's so many circles and I don't understand the corpsicles that's no no corpsicle there's no uh... shriveled up dicks and the clawed out eyeballs in that new uh... in that new true detective all uh... this in this bit i wanted to piggyfront office get your piggyfronted sticker now she can now available with a microscope yeah i'll get you one you have one uh... your sticker now available with a microscope. Yeah, I'll give you one. You can have one. Thanks. You're welcome. Times are tough. We gotta save all the stickers. Love is Blind is coming

back. Let me think about which one. The one with the pods? The pods. I'm over that one. You are? Oh, I thought this last season, they only had two couples that even survived all through that fucking honeymoon. But I did find myself married at first sight or whatever married at first sight yeah is the latest season yeah I think I don't

know okay but I'm stuck with it so far I think that is crazy I mean that's really wild it's really but they have professional people that are doing the matching. They've got like the there's somebody from like the religious and then there's the, that's right, the licensed, licensed sex therapist, like a psycho psychologist. Yeah, there's like three. Yeah, there's three professionals. They all, you know, they, they, they do extensive interviewing and they match people and it is very interesting. It's very interesting But their hit rate is still About the same as it is out there in the real world meaning that which is very interesting

Yeah, it's very interesting But it's very interesting in the sense that you know arranged marriages do work. That's the truth They work about as much as a marriage and any other way that you would meet right? Well, that's the thing it kind of makes me, it's thought provoking to me because I think, well, these people really do have a lot of things in common. And maybe if they had met on their own or like in a different circumstance

where you don't all of a sudden you're married and you're moved in with each other. It's the real deal. I mean, living with somebody just in itself can drive you apart. But if you had built organically on that, maybe they would have lasted, I don't know, brings up a lot of little questions.

I agree with you. I think it's a very thought provoking show. I think it was from the beginning of very thought provoking show, uh, married at first sight, America married at first sight, Australia. I'm sure they have different versions. I think they have maps in England too. They call it maps. It's, it's short. We're all talking code here about married at first sight Australia. I'm sure they have different versions I think they have maths in England too. They call it maths. It's it's short We're all talking code here about married at first sight But the reason why I just learned that But the reason why I'm kind of soured a little bit on married at first sight is because it's not

Sensationalized and I wanted to be sensationalized. That's why I've soured on the love is blind. Okay. Yeah, that's why you saw it I don't know I want to be entertained also and I'm not always entertained with maths anymore because it's just a little dry sometimes. They go into kind of the regular rigmaroo and meeting the family. I don't really get along with his mother. I don't really... Well, I can deal with that in my own life. Like I see that in my own life. What I want is over dramatic, clearly mentally ill human beings

What I want is over dramatic, clearly mentally ill human beings dating each other so that I can make fun of it. I can feel better about my own relationship with space girl. I might dip my toe back into that pod. Let me tell you why I think it might be a good idea to that pod. Let me tell you why I think that might be a good idea. That might be a good idea this season. They are bringing back couples that didn't work out from previous seasons. Okay, well I did watch the previous seasons

except for this past one. Okay, I think you should watch the last one. I think it was really interesting actually. I thought you said it was horrible. No, I think I said that about maths. I'm not sure I said that about love is blind. I actually, we did like the love is blind season in general. Well, the one they were trying to do the live reunion

or something. Oh, that was two seasons ago. Yeah. What if that? They're just churning these things out. What's that? They're just churning these things out. It's a Netflix hit. They have them in seven different countries, seven different languages.

A lot of people are watching them. I can't do it with all the fucking reading. I just can't do it. Or they have terrible like, you know, they do overdubbing and it's just terrible. It's horrible. Um, but I can't do it in the other countries, but here love is blind. There's been hit or miss seasons There's like four five six seven something like that seasons now the first couple were great There was a couple duds now there

I think this last season was okay But I am super interested to see what happens when they put people who have already been in the box Together because now they've sharpened up their game. They know what's going on They're fame hungry and they want to get that screen time and they're willing to probably do anything to get it. And so I am all about it. Bring those rejects back and let's have a good time. Okay. I'll dip my toe in there but the one that I cannot, that I really got, it irked me, was the one about the

marry me or not one to where they do you know what I'm talking about the one where they couples okay like say ten yeah couples who have not married yet oh one wants to get married the other one maybe doesn't want to and then they switch yes couples yes I watched somebody else it's crazy first of all can we talk about how much money this Nick Lachey and Vanessa are getting paid to do? Absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing. Is the bachelor guy? Now they got a new bachelor guy. Here's your final rose.

Ladies There's 26 roses left. Prepare to say your goodbyes. Go ahead. I'll say your goodbyes. Go ahead. I'll be hiding behind the curtain. And he goes like, hides behind the curtain. And then he's like, ladies, 21 roses left. You're probably gonna get rejected. I'll be back here. I know.

Ladies, you all just got drunk on this first night. There's lots of B-roll footage we're going to use to embarrass you and your family. Prepare to say goodbye. Four roses left. And then the final rose comes out. I was watching this the other night with Astrid. I went to go take a shower and I got stuck

in the final rose ceremony. Oh yeah. And these caddy ass women. I swear to God. What the heck they are. Well, yeah. And these caddy ass women. I mean, I swear to God. They are. Well, it gets down to like, you know, the last four roses, and these girls are literally throwing a fit. They're like, and then they have the cutaways, right? And it's like, I'm just sitting there and I'm like, what is whatever his name is? What is Clayton doing? What is Clayton doing? Why am I not being picked? Oh, in this season,

they have two sisters on the same bedside. Oh, I'm not getting into it. And Astrid goes, one of those sisters is a total bitch. There's no way that he gets her. There's no way that I watch the whole episode. There's just no way. He doesn't like her at all.

And I go, Astrid, you are watching a television program. The sisters will continue. Probably until the bitter end. It'll be against the two. Yes, if the producers have their choice, it'll be the two sisters with the final rows. I promise you, and guess what? I was right.

And she's like, oh, I would've never guessed that. And I'm like, honey, it's a television show. The producers are in this guy's ear all the time. And the guy knows what he signs up for. He doesn't sign up to find love. Maybe that happens. He signs up to make entertaining television. That's the point.

But I did watch that other where they mixed the couples up and Nicholas Shea and Vanessa. Well, would you like to get married now after you just slept with the other guy? Yeah. From the pool? Exactly. Did any one of those couples work out?

I didn't see the end. Cause I only watched two episodes and I was bored. I was bored because the premise is ridiculous. Take a situation where you're questioning everything about the relationship and then put some hot ass in front of them and ply them with liquor and a television camera and see how things work out. Well, I could already, I telegraphed that one a mile away.

Guess what? None of these guys are gonna, none of these couples are walking away any kind of healthy. I would dare, dare you to go Google those couples and see if one of them is still together to this day. I promise you, my guess is they're not. Because how do you go through something like that? Or they were, or they are because they planned it.

I mean, that's the other thing is when I watch some of these shows, I'm like, how planned out did they do that? Like to a certain extent of like, look, we're going to go apply for the show separately. I'm gonna try and get on and see if we can get on. And then I don't know that they're just like, this is why you got to watch the last season of Love is Blind

because this exact quandary presents itself in the season. Two people who had been dating each other show up on Love Is Blind. There's a lot of questions about, well, both of them got on there, how this slipped by the producers, how no one knew this, and it becomes a big blow up. So I want you to watch that season

because I think that this was the most interesting part about that season, is it's like, oh, holy shit, they had actually dated before, and then they connected in the pods on the first episode. But what you don't see, and I'm just gonna like a little spoiler alert, what you don't see, the producers don't show you that they discover almost immediately,

like within 30 minutes they discover, oh my God, your voice is familiar, everything you're saying is familiar, are you so and so? Yes, so, but it's not until like the fifth episode that you learn this and you're like wow That's crazy in the shoe drop. I like that sensationalized bullshit. I want to be entertained I want to be entertained. That's why I watch my thousand pound sisters and all this other stuff It's because it's highly entertaining. It's just an entertaining

It's a it's exact opposite of my life and maths is too close to it because they're actually trying to put couples together That's why I like the housewives and all the bravo stuff. I love the bullshit. You love the real shit. Now we know. None of it's real. Well, that's true too. So it's not real. Then let's just have some fun. Yeah. See.

I'm right again. To be fair, to be fair, I'm right this one time today okay yeah listen protect the elderly protect that next door and get that next door app get that CEO pull him in front of Congress and ask him what he's doing he or she whoever it is okay we're gonna do a next-door episode. We just find a good next-door post. I need to look at my app. Yeah. Oh, Chrissy. That is entertaining. That should be a television show. We should follow these people around who are posting to the next door and see what they do on a daily basis. My groceries got dropped off somewhere else.

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