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Episode Date: January 10, 2025Episode #676: Are we snowed under in Atlanta?! Only time will tell, but at least we have the music of JAMLAND to keep us entertained in this difficult time. Weather-mania Ice/snow incidents in Atlan...ta Somehow Bryan was always doing blow A second date in Snowpocalypse Facebook & the robber barons The TikTok ban Bryan goes on a rant about Mark Zuckerberg 7-9 inches of snow… EDM & The Sphere “Phish sources” Bryan was an EDM promoter? JAMLAND PRODUCTIONS Text us or leave us a voicemail: +1 (212) 433-3TCB Follow Us: IG: @thecommercialbreak TikTok: @tcbpodcast YT: youtube.com/thecommercialbreak www.tcbpodcast.com Executive Producer: Bryan Green Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Producer: Astrid B. Green Producer & Audio Editor: Christina Archer Christina’s Podcast: Apple Podcasts & Spotify To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Hey, have they called school yet? Well, I mean it's starting to accumulate.
Yes, it's accumulating right up here. I can see it. I can see it right now.
Well, it just hit 32. It hurt 32 degrees.
And it's going to get down to 28 tonight.
And it's going to be 28 in the month. They can't go to school at 32 degrees.
Babies are not made for 32 degree weather. Uh-uh. Absolutely not. Absolutely not.
Weather. Uh-uh. Absolutely not. Absolutely not.
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Oh yeah, guys and kittens, welcome back to the Commercial Break.
I'm Brian Green.
This is the Glenn Burns to my Ken Cook.
Kristen Joy Hoadley.
Best to you, Kristen.
Best to you, Brian. You like that? You see where
I went with that? Welcome to Little Weather Related Opening. Winter We Mix. Winter Weather
Warning. Winter We Mix. Yes. Channel 11 Alive only does storm alert days in serious situations.
This is to be taken seriously, I just read. It's a Friday here on the commercial break
and we're not actually here on a Friday.
We're probably embedded in some, in one and a half inches of snow that has crippled the
city.
We were stocked up on bread and milk.
Yes, bread and milk because it's, first of all, who drink, bread and milk?
What?
I know.
Bread and milk.
Mac and cheese are like, you know, canned soup or something.
Mac and cheese and wine.
Bread, milk, and water. Those are the things that go with the alcohol. That's what goes.
Exactly.
Gasoline, firewood. I mean, it's like people just go fucking bananas around here,
and the pandemonium has already started and it's only the middle of the week.
I'm referring to this winter storm that's supposedly going to affect some parts of the southeast like the city of Atlanta where we live, where we record. I gotta be honest with you,
I just don't believe the bullshit anymore. I've been living in this city for way too long. I've
even noticed that I think the meteorologists don't believe the bullshit anymore. I don't even think
they think they know what's actually going to happen because they're wrong every fucking time.
They're wrong about where the hurricane goes, they're worried about where they're
wrong about what the weather is going to be in an hour, let alone five days from
now. And every time they put together one of these special storm alerts, which we
have going on right now, everybody runs to the fucking store.
There are lines, it's pandemonium.
Everyone's driving like an asshole trying to get home.
I don't know to apparently make french toast with their bread milk and eggs
I don't know what's going on. But then what's gonna happen? It's gonna rain. That's what's gonna happen
It's gonna rain and we're all gonna get seven days
Yes
We just got off 30 days of no school and we're gonna have three more school day where I gotta go fucking crazy
Cuz my kids are running around the house with nothing to do
Fuck you. Fuck you.
Chesley, Nestle or whatever your name is.
Chesley.
Chesley.
I like Chesley.
I like Chesley too.
He has the whizometer.
I used to have the whizometer, but I married Astrid and she said no whizometer for me.
No more whiz.
No whizometer for me.
We're going to take the whiz onto the ommeter.
Why does my mind always
go there? Of course, we just spent all day yesterday looking at penises, so there you
go. That's a hard one to explain to Ascad. I go in the kitchen yesterday and I go, Hey,
babe, I got a little concern about our new video team. And she's like, what? And I go,
well, listen, we just spent the entire episode looking at dicks.
And I'm not sure that I should say,
and she goes, wait, did you say
you spent the entire episode looking at dicks?
And I was, I did spend the entire episode looking.
Why are you looking at dicks?
And I go, well, listen,
it was for a show that we did about naked attraction.
And she's like, I just don't understand
some of the content you were in.
Yeah.
I have to say, after 6 episodes, 800 hours of the commercial break.
I already called, do not send that video to the editors.
Well I didn't.
I didn't.
What I did was I sent the audio, I sent just us and our reaction to the video.
I didn't actually send the actual video because YouTube is not going to show it anyway. so what's the fucking point? I'm certainly not going to put a clip of that
on Spotify. Can you imagine? And all our new Venezuelan listeners, and all they see is
a big uncircumcised penis. Anyway, here in Atlanta, when there's snow, when there's
threat of snow, when there's threat of winter weather, it is just like, it's like a sport
here in Atlanta. It's like a sport to see
who can cancel school first, how many days can we not go to work, and how many people
can freak out over nothing, quite frankly. Now, to be fair, in the occasion when, and
there's been many of these, when the weather people tell us it's not going to snow, it
thinks fine.
It's okay. Everything is going to be okay. Yeah, don't worry about it.
Yeah, boom. Six inches of ice, no power for two weeks.
People are peeing in their cars.
Truckers are shitting on the highway.
Stuck on the side of the road for 12 hours.
The National Guard is picking people up out of their hot vehicles.
They always get it wrong. Always.
So when they say there's going to be three to six inches of snow where we are right now, I just don't believe it.
I don't have any reason to believe it
because it never comes true.
I mean, maybe the supercomputer can help with this
moving forward.
Yeah, I know, maybe AI can help,
but they don't seem to be getting any better at this.
And here's the thing,
everybody will remember a couple of events here in Atlanta
having to do with wintery mix. The year of the Super Bowl, whatever that was, 2002?
Beth Dombkowski No, well...
Jared Sussman 2003?
Beth Dombkowski Are you talking about the ice storm?
Jared Sussman The first, the ice storm.
Beth Dombkowski Yeah, the ice storm.
Beth Dombkowski I was a child, so yeah.
Beth Dombkowski Let's go with that.
Beth Dombkowski I was living in Tennessee during that.
Jared Sussman You were?
Beth Dombkowski So.
Jared Sussman Okay. All right. So, actually four separate events. The first one, and all
of them, I got stuck in strange circumstances. Let me explain. First one, so actually four separate events. The first one, and all of them I got stuck in
strange circumstances. Let me explain. First one, whether people don't call it, and there literally
was like 18 inches of snow. This is back in the 90s. I was stuck at-
Like 95?
Yeah, 95, 94, 95.
That was still here then.
I was on, I went to my friend's older sister's house at Georgia Southern University. I've told that story
before. I made out with some girl and then she freaked out because I was underage and she had
some guy call and threaten me like he was his boyfriend. Anyway, all right, I'm not going to
repeat the story. It was kind of gross and people didn't like it. All right, so Christina remembers
it, so she's thanking God I'm not repeating the story.
The smell, that's all I got.
I can just remember the smell of that situation.
But I got stuck in Georgia Southern,
at Georgia Southern University for days.
My dad had to pay for a hotel room
because we couldn't,
literally couldn't drive back to Atlanta.
Then there is the 2000 and to 2003 ice storm
when overnight we accumulated five to six inches
of not snow, not rain, ice.
And it literally turned to ice as soon as it hit the ground, hit the wires, hit the
cars.
And everybody was socked in for days.
This crippled the city in a way that I will never forget because I went without power
and heat for four or
five days. We had to open the oven. We had to turn the oven on and open it to get heat
in the house.
That's safe.
And I was doing blow.
Oh!
What story of Brian's doesn't include the word blow if it's previous to 2007?
Dee was able to get out. D was able to get out.
D was able to get out. We were able to, we managed to connect before the ice storm. So,
thank God I had my supplies. Most people go for bread and milk. Brian's going for blow and bud
light. I was over at, remember I told the story how one of my friends wanted me to kind of cuck
his wife. He was gay and he wanted me to kind of cuck his wife.
You worked with her.
No, I worked with him at the Lestrada and then he left to go work at the gay bar over
nights and he asked me to take care of his wife while he was out at the gay bar doing
his thing. And I took care of her. And what we really ended up doing a lot of times was
just sitting around doing drugs. And so, like many other nights before, we decided that we were going to do drugs.
And when we did this, we start to realize that shit outside was getting a little bit
hairy.
We and the gay bar closed early because it was getting hairy.
And so we had to drive down to pick all kind of fucking twisted.
We drove down to pick him up on the highway, sliding from one lane to
the other. The scariest ride I've ever taken, maybe because of the cocaine, maybe because it was
actually scary, not really sure. But we slid back and forth all the way to pick him up. By the time
we got back north of Atlanta, things were just bad. Transformers were exploding, trees were falling, and I
lived about four miles down Roswell Road. And I couldn't, we couldn't, there was a
decision was made, there was no more driving going to be done. I walked that four miles
back to where I was living. And I'll never forget this.
Four miles is a long way in the ice. It took me hours to walk home.
Hours to walk home.
I just remember slipping and sliding everywhere.
Why did you have to go home?
I don't know why I had to go home.
You were on coke.
Yeah, I was on coke and I was getting uncomfortable
and I was worried I was gonna get stuck.
And there was a cat in the apartment
and if I was doing blow,
I was not having an allergic reaction.
But after the effects of my decongestant wore off, I was going to have a panic attack and,
you know, I'm really allergic to cats.
And so I just think I just got in my own head and I'm like, I got to go, I got to get back
home.
I don't want to be stuck here for days.
And at that time, now we had the news on and the news was saying, holy shit, what we said
wasn't going to happen happened. The whole city sucked in and no one has power. So when I'm walking home,
I remember walking toward a gas station on Roswell Road and there was a light post,
had a transformer on it, one of those round things that sits up there that converts,
whatever the fuck that does. That thing exploded when I was about a football field away from it, and I could feel it
in my testicles. It was the loudest, deepest explosion I had ever heard. It hurt my ears,
and the light was like a thousand suns. It was crazy. It just exploded, sparks flying everywhere.
And so, I started to hustle up just a little bit quicker toward home. Trees, branches falling, cracking.
The apocalypse!
It was the apocalypse, and Brian's walking home! I had a perfectly warm place to sleep.
By the way, the apartment that I left had power the entire time. The apartment that
I went back to had no power when I got home. For four days I had no power. Then, of course,
the great shit, 75 shit storm of 2013.
I think it was 13.
Yeah.
When I was on the second date, my second date with a girl who I...
Yes.
Anyway, she came over to my house to watch a movie.
And I'll never forget, we watched Inception is the movie that we watched.
And I smoked
cigarettes at the time, so did she. And so, as the movie ended, we decided to go outside
and smoke a cigarette. When we started Inception, it was raining. When we went out almost three
hours later to go smoke a cigarette.
Danielle Pletka It was crazy. It happened so fast.
Jeff Sarris Six inches of snow.
Danielle Pletka I had just dropped Jeff off at the airport because he was going up to New York.
Oh really?
For, because I think that was around the Super Bowl too.
There was something going on.
I think maybe the New Yorks.
Maybe.
I thought this was like fall.
If it was 2013, it was like, it was like, no, it was like January.
No, it was like January.
Okay, then it was 2014.
Yeah.
Because that was my freshman year of college.
Okay.
Yeah, okay.
So 2014.
Yeah, so I had just dropped Jeff off and then I got back home and it just started
dumping. Dumping. I mean, it happened so quick. It was nuts and that's what caused, that's what, everybody got caught.
Yes. Everybody was trying to get to their kids to get them out of school. That's right. And things went nuts. The traffic was
insane. It went, everybody was stuck. It went crazy quickly. And I lived in an apartment, and if you walked outside of my apartment,
I was on like, you know, it was one of these that kind of sits on the side of a hill. And that hill
pointed toward I-75, which is the major artery that goes right through the city. So I lived downtown,
right off I, and I say right off 75, right off 75. I could see it when I walked into my apartment.
And as we woke up the night, so of course she couldn't go anywhere.
She was scared to drive. I agreed with her.
The problem with the city of Atlanta is it's very hilly and none of our streets are congruent.
There is no going around the block in Atlanta.
If you head onto a street, you're kind of stuck there for the next 10 miles.
You know what I'm saying? You can't go around the block. You have to.
Yeah, it's not a grid system.
No. Someone was on acid when they developed the City of Atlanta, because it's crazy.
So, the next morning when we woke up and we are watching this, and this is night number one,
on the second date I have with this young lady, we're into like the 24th hour of this date.
When I woke up the next morning, I turn on the TV
and I see that the helicopters are flying above the highway where I live. Like, I could go outside,
I could hear the helicopters above me. The TV cameras are literally down on the street
because there are thousands of vehicles that are stuck and they're stuck right there where I live,
like on 75, stuck right there. People are stuck.
It was a mess.
The National Guard is called in to try and bring them water and food. I walked outside
to go see what was going on, and as I look over the balcony, there was a trucker in the
woods down the hill where I live. There was a trucker, his ass full of glory, letting
the hot shit out right there on the side of the
highway.
I never seen anything like it in my life.
I was like, oh my God, I thought Transformer Explosion was Apocalypse.
This felt much more like Apocalypse to me.
So in the good spirit of being in Atlantan, we made a pot of coffee, a big couple of pots
of coffee, and we went out there and started bringing coffee.
So you went to make people shit more.
We allowed people to relieve themselves.
Yeah.
I mean, listen, okay, you got to shit, you got to shit.
What are you going to do?
The trucker was, I mean, he just had to go.
It's morning.
Coffee's going to speed that up.
Oh yeah.
So we brought coffee, we brought water, we made a couple of trips out. That
was also a slippery sh-sh-sh, we were like kind of sliding down the ramp.
Oh yeah.
But that's what we did. Anyway, day number five. Still a little sloggy out there on the
roads, but now I could see that cars were out there driving on the side streets, not
on the highway yet, but on, because eventually
the National Guard got everybody out of their car, took them to wherever it is they were going,
and like a cab service, and the cars just sat there on the highway.
Yeah, they did.
And the governor, like seven days into this, had to say on TV,
if you don't move your car today, we are going to tow you. You need to move your car. We're going
to have to move them out of the way." And the National Guard eventually went and
started pushing cars out of the way. It was crazy. I, day number five, even though it
was still very slick and sloggy out there, I made the decision to get in my own car with
this young lady. I couldn't take it anymore. I was done. I was like, I got to get you home.
I'm sorry, I got to get you home. And she's like, I just don't feel comfortable driving. I can hear the car sliding out there. And I was like,
you may not feel comfortable driving, but I do. So let me get you home.
I've got this Honda Accord with no hood.
That's right.
And it's perfectly safe.
What else could possibly go wrong with my car? If we crash, we crash. And I'm telling you what,
we slid all over those side streets to get her home. And I slid all the way back. And I'm telling you what, we slid all over those side streets to get her home, and I
slid all the way back, and I took a deep, solid breath when I got home, and I was like,
thank God, I can just ride this out by myself now.
It was so, it turned into like the worst.
It just was, you know, you're just getting-
And then you went back for more later.
Oh, three years later.
Three years later, we broke up. For good. Yes,
three years later. I should have known right then. I did know right then and right there, but,
you know, sometimes we're glad for a punishment. The heart wants what the heart wants.
You used to tell me that. It is what it is.
I'd be like, Brian, really?
I'm holding space for her.
You broke it up again.
Wait, now you're back together again.
Oh, the heart wants what the heart wants, Chrissy.
Yeah, not only did I used to say that to Chrissy,
I would say that in the course of 24 hours.
Yes.
I would be like, we broke up.
Call later on in the day.
We're back, it's a back up.
Well, then you'd be like,
hey, you wanna come meet so and so out with me, we're gonna go to the bar
and come meet us out.
I'd be like, I thought y'all broke up.
What, you just broke up this morning?
And I'd be like, yeah, no, it's fine, we're all good.
Yeah, we patch things up.
Thank God for Astrid.
Thank God.
Astrid's the best thing that ever happened to me.
Christina, you have no idea.
But I honestly think I had to get through
schnitzel tits to get to Astrid to understand
what a good partner is for me and then how to be a good partner to someone else.
You just have to go through that stuff sometimes.
You do, that's true.
I firmly believe that we learn by doing, or at least I learn by, there's lots of people
on earth who, and I'm really good at giving relationship advice.
I consider myself really good at giving relationship advice, but I can't take it to save my life. I just can good at giving relationship advice. I consider myself really good at giving
relationship advice, but I can't take it to save my life. I just can't take my own advice.
I can see a train wreck coming a mile away if it's somebody else that's getting in the train
wreck. But I will literally stand on the tracks and the train will go forward and back up a couple
times before I realize I shouldn't be standing on the fucking tracks. Listen, I'm just one of those
guys. I have to learn by doing and then fail multiple times.
And look at this podcast.
Look at this podcast.
We should have given this up three years ago.
We should have socked it in.
A little bit of this and a little bit of that.
Oh, man!
Brian's back with their,
Brian's back with little tits.
Locked you out of your apartment?
Called your mom a bitch to her face?
Screamed and yelled at you in front of everybody at the mall?
Broke your window?
Broke your window?
Slashed your tires?
WABAM!
The hard ones with the hard walls!
LMAO
Anyway, we're probably snowed in. I'm probably calling bullshit. I'm
trying to call the bullshit, but this looks like it actually might happen. So, pray for us here in
Atlanta. I love, that's my favorite thing in the world, is when social media starts making those
posts about Atlanta after snow. Pray for Atlanta. Pray for Atlanta with like a dusting of snow.
I know.
With like a dusting of snow. I know
Sorry folks, Atlanta's closed though John Candy from the vacation. Oh my god. That's a great. All right I love that movie. Get your memes ready and tag us on Instagram. We'd love to see it. Well, we'll keep you posted
I promise I'll make a reel if any kind of wintry weather happens
I'll post a reel and I'll I'll tag the commercial break in it. All right, let's take a break. We'll be back.
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I'm officially done with Facebook.
I just want to share that with everybody.
I've actually gotten back on it.
You've gotten back on it?
I have.
I've been checking in recently.
Oh, really?
For what reason?
I don't know.
Are you defining dates on there?
Something. No, I wanted to check out the marketplace thing and you know, it sucks you back in.
Yeah, they know how to do it.
It's a Facebook sock.
Yeah, Mark Zuckerberg knows how to get people to pay attention. I mean, good, bad, or indifferent,
Mark has changed our lives. And so actually, man, mainly bad and indifferent. Mark Zuckerberg has changed our lives. But it just seems like, I mean, I know this happens with every single administration,
and I'm not claiming that Trump is the only one this is happening with, but it sure does
seem like the robber barons are kneeling at the, I don't know, the throne of Trump.
And it's really strange to me to see them so publicly sucking a dick.
I mean, honestly.
I mean, I'm not surprised.
No, there's no surprises here.
The only guy that I've seen.
The only guy that's going to try and fight him is going to be, you know, then that's
going to be an enemy number one.
Of course.
Yeah.
That's the thing is that he makes such a big stink about every single
thing and he causes a lot of drama for, with like normally I think most presidents, you
know, with the exception of some in our history, would just kind of like, you know, okay, I'm
not gonna, I'm not gonna publicly lambast you. That's for the whoever, whatever, the
regular. Yeah, that's private. That's right. That's for the I do that privately privately. I step on your business
I don't publicly do it, but they're so scared of getting a public tongue lashing and having you know, whatever
I'm not sure whatever happened. They're so scared of it that they just kneel and they bow and it's it's really quite disturbing to me
I liked when all this stuff happened in private that I didn't know about it
I didn't have to I didn't have to be upset about it. At least Greenland is standing up.
Yeah. I mean, Trump's threatening to invade Greenland and Panama? Are you kidding me?
Are you kidding me? Now, listen, we probably could invade. Panama doesn't even have a standing army.
That could be a really easy take. All right, I get that one. But Greenland? You're going to
go for Greenland? Let Greenland be, for God's sake.
Do we really need Greenland? I mean, he says it's like a military strategic. Maybe it is, but we already have relationship with Greenland.
Why do we want to own another country? Can't we get this one right before we start looking at others?
Canada, the fifty-first state? Really?
How about making Puerto Rico the fifty-first state and give them the attention that they need
before we go paying attention to Canada?
But of course, we know why that's not going to happen.
Anywho, the one guy that I still like out of all this, the one billionaire that I'm
still thinking is semi-sane is Mark Cuban.
100%.
Yeah, Mark Cuban is at least, I mean, listen, I don't love everything about Mark Cuban,
but I think generally he speaks truth to power and he seems to not be afraid.
I think so too.
Well, and he agrees with some stuff, but disagrees with other things, the major things that make
the most sense.
Here's what's going to be shocking to some listeners who are no longer listening because
they don't like the fact that their fannies are hurt that I talked about Trump in a negative way. But if your fanny is hurt that I
talked about Trump in a negative way, let me share something with you that might be
surprising. I don't disagree with everything Trump has to say. Don't
disagree with it. Don't disagree with some of the stuff that him and some of
the people that are around him say I actually agree with. I think that we do
need big change in this country. I don't think the country works
for a lot of folks, but I don't think we're going to get there by kowtowing to billionaires.
I just don't think we're going to do that. That's my personal opinion. There should be
a nice adversarial relationship going on with people who control most of the wealth in this
country and we should be checking them to make sure that they don't spill us over, crushing everybody in the process.
That should be part of the government's responsibility, should be to checks and balances to make sure
... I'm not saying take away their wealth.
I don't believe in that.
I don't believe in wealth distribution.
But I'm saying that we shouldn't just be cuddling up to them and letting them do whatever the
fuck they want to do, nor should it be the opposite way around.
I don't believe that because I don't think that's good for us, the small people, the
people who don't make any money podcasting.
I want to be a billionaire too, but I'm never going to get there because, you know, I don't
know.
It's because there's certain people, you know, they just seem to be absorbing a ton of wealth without any checks
and balances and not doing great by the people who allow them to get that rich.
Amazon is a perfect example of this.
They don't treat their employees very well.
And at every turn that the employees are trying to help themselves get out of that shit city
situation or make it a little bit better, they get crushed and we're not helping them.
And the new administration doesn't seem to be willing
to help them.
They want to fight against it.
Why? Why?
Why shouldn't we help the workers at Amazon?
They bring me a random microphone wire in three hours.
I know.
I know, I always don't choose that option when they're like,
we can have it to you by 7 a.m.
Oh, I always do.
I'm the asshole who always does that. Like those poor people that are delivering it. I know, I always don't choose that option when they're like, we can have it to you by 7 a.m. Oh, I always do.
I'm the asshole who always does that.
Like those poor people that are delivering it, and they're cold and dark in the middle
of the overnight.
Yeah, but those people, those people who do bring me the random microphone wire in three
hours.
Wait, let me give you a story for all the kids out there.
When I first started playing guitar guitar and I got an amplifier,
and my, god damn it, Brian, shut that shit up.
When I got the first ever amplifier ever made in 1909,
the Fender number one, when I got that,
I needed a wire in order to plug that thing in. You know what I had to do? I had to go to my dad, ask him for a ride to the guitar
store that was 26 miles away, to then go and pay for that wire and bring it back
to the house. That entire process took about six weeks, because my dad knew once
I plugged the guitar in, it was all over for the rest of the house. That entire process took about six weeks because my dad knew once I plugged the guitar in it was all over for the rest of the
house. And man was it, if I didn't every three minutes here, Brian, turn it down.
What the fuck? Shut up. I'm gonna be a star, dad. Dad, I'm Eddie Vettel. Sonny, shut up. Can it be, can it be mine?
You know what could be yours, Brian?
The garage!
Go there!
So now the amazing development that Amazon can get you anything at any time and bring
it to you within hours is a blessing among blessings.
It is like a gift from the heavens. It makes your life so incredibly easier.
And if you, the regular listener at home, doesn't believe that those people should be treated correctly,
then you are a shithead. Period! And a sentence. There's nothing else to say.
Same with the grocery deliveries and
the FedEx guy and the people who work behind the coffee counter and whoever. Christina,
all these people.
Our service workers?
The people who work for us and do the things that make our lives easier, more convenient,
better, healthier, whatever you want to say. Those are the people that we should take care of.
Jeff Bezos, we don't need to worry about.
The guy has a yacht that has a yacht inside the yacht.
Who fucking cares?
No one's going to ever bother Jeff Bezos.
Do you think Jeff Bezos orders Amazon?
Here's a question I have.
Do you think Jeff Bezos uses Amazon Prime? I bet he does have. Do you think Jeff Bezos uses Amazon?
I bet he does.
I bet he does too.
Do you think he gets everything for free?
Yeah, of course.
Yeah.
I mean, technically.
That's annoying.
Maybe not. Maybe he's got like a, he's probably got an account where like he racks shit up.
Yeah. You think Jeff orders like, you know, oat milk at three in the morning to be delivered by
seven? Probably.
He probably has an assistant who does that. Oh, yeah. He's got an assistant whose assistant's assistant does that because that person probably
never talks, speaks to Jeff Bezos. Jeff just sends a text message to his most trusted advisor
who then sends a million people out to do everything. And that's okay. I'm not arguing
with that. I'd love to be in that position. As long as I didn't hurt anybody else to get
there, I'd love to be in that position. But there's the point also, is that I think we need to just
consider how everybody, I think everybody, I think certain people have this mentality,
and I don't fault them for that. I think certain people have this mentality that that's what I want.
I want to be Jeff Bezos. I want to be the millionaire. I want to drive the Lamborghini. I want to have a boat. I want to live
the Lamborghini. It's a pochini mushroom mixed with a Labrador Retriever.
And a doodle.
Yeah, it's a Labrador doodle. I think they have this impression that that's what I want.
And okay, that's great. That's the American dream. Everybody wants that.
But you're going to need the help and the
cooperation of people who may never realize that dream in order to get there.
And if we cannot step on heads on the way up the ladder, lest we meet them on
the way back down, I just think that it might be a better place to live, a better
society in general. And so, I argue sometimes that cuddling up to all of the robber barons that are out
there right now and making their lives easier at the expense of everybody else who's helping
them get there is really a shitty attitude to have and it doesn't work. And so...
It's been going on since the invention of our country though. I mean, think about all
of the...
Of course.
The train, the steel, all of that that actually built the country. Same thing.
I mean, talk about those working conditions. There was child labor. Child labor. The Chinese
people built our railroads and everybody else got rich. I argue, Chrissy, here's the surprise for
you, because Brian's going to know a history fact. Even the Egyptians treated their people shitty.
Now, we're not living in Egypt, though. We're living in the United States of America in 2024.
This should be a little bit different. 2025. Thank you. Me and my kid, both still trying to get used
to that new number. You're fighting it. I'm arguing it. I'm fighting it all the way.
But I'm sorry, the guy of all the billionaires, the billionaire that really makes me just
like hot under the collar is that Mark fucking fucker.
He is so terrible.
He's just like, is he human?
I'm not even sure.
That's not a robot with skin on it.
Do you know what I'm saying?
He doesn't move his head or blink his eyes.
What's wrong with that?
How do you do that?
Practice.
Yeah, I know.
Facebook has just turned into a cesspool of disgustingness.
I mean, maybe the marketplace is fine, and apparently everybody's dating on there now.
So maybe I'm just an old man who can't get hip with the kids.
I don't know.
I don't know.
But, you know, fuck you.
I don't want to be on Facebook anymore.
You don't have to be.
Yeah.
I'm getting with the newfangled Instagram.
Those people are better over there.
Oh, wait, it's owned by Mark Zuckerberg? Shit! TikTok.
That's why we're getting on Nextdoor.
Nextdoor is going to-
Who owns Nextdoor?
Probably some Chinese company. I don't know. I have no idea.
You don't hear about that one.
Yeah, no, I think Nextdoor is a private company. It was probably owned by Uber Eats or something.
I don't know. Who the fuck knows? Or says a bunch of investors, institutional investors, next door investors,
just a bunch of people. I was going to think maybe it was the landscaping company.
The CEO is Nirav Tullia. It's just advertising.
My landscaping company owns Nextdoor. Instead of buying Greenland, let's buy next door. How's that?
Kevin O'Leary is thinking about buying TikTok. He's trying to buy TikTok.
I had no idea of it. Okay.
Which is beyond, beyond to me. I have a hard time believing that the guy who's, I don't know,
the kind of the persnickety jerk off from Shark Tank, which I don't have any problems with Kevin O'Leary.
I quite frankly, I think he's pretty smart.
But you know, that guy is going to own TikTok.
Is this going to be another Justin Timberlake MySpace moment
where TikTok just goes into oblivion because of who owns it?
Do you remember when Justin bought MySpace?
Yeah, but when he bought that though, it was definitely done pretty much.
TikTok's alive and well. TikTok's alive and well.
TikTok's alive and well, and there are a lot of creators
who rightfully are very nervous and very scared
that their way of living is going to be gone.
Because TikTok has paid a lot of creators a lot of money,
and a lot of people applaud them for that, as do I.
If you're helping the platform be successful, you should participate in some way, shape or form. But a lot of creators
are very nervous that this TikTok ban will go into effect. I think it's now going to
be sitting in front of the Supreme Court. It's up to Donald Trump, whether or not I
guess he signs the bill into law.
I don't think he's going to sign it.
No, I don't think he is either.
He's got Barron next to him saying, dad, you cannot do this.
Yeah. And you know what?
For that, I applaud you, Barron.
Listen, I think that it's very dangerous
to have China have all this information at their disposal.
But I'm not smart enough to understand
why that's dangerous.
I just think in my head, other people have said it's dangerous.
You know what I'm saying?
Isn't all of our information readily accessible anyway
if you really want it?
Couldn't China just pay LexisNexis Like, isn't all of our information readily accessible anyway, if you really want it?
Couldn't China just pay Lexus Nexus to get that information?
Or any private institution could pay Lexus Nexus?
I mean, one time I applied for a car loan, this was like three years ago.
I am still getting phone calls to this day, where they know my middle name, my mom's maiden
name, and they know what make, model, and license plate number I have on the car.
They know where I work, they know where I live, they know everything about me.
Not because I gave them that information, because they bought that information from
the person who gave me the loan.
Now they're trying to buy the loan, now they're trying to get in the game, they're trying
to make a little bit of money off me.
That's the way it goes.
So, Chyta wants our info, can't they just give it to us anyway?
I understand it's on your phone and they're sucking up your, you know, your e-mails and
all that stuff. But listen, let's be real. All of us have a phone where there's an arrestable
offense somewhere on there. You know what I'm saying? Somewhere on there, there's an
arrestable offense.
Even Apple, I just read, had to pay out this huge lawsuit for Siri listening to us, which
we knew was happening.
I knew it.
I knew it.
Instagram's doing the same thing.
Facebook has been doing it for a long time.
I am telling you, when I first got into internet marketing, way back when Google was a thing,
back before, search engine optimization, also known as SEOs. Do you guys do SEOs? We do
do SEOs. Oh yes, we do do SEOs. When Google had just come online and search
engine optimization, manipulating the search engines to make your website or
web presence rank higher, search engine optimization, when that was a thing, a
whole cottage industry popped up under it. Now it's all AI driven that I don't know that that SEO is I don't know who knows
I haven't kept up with the SEOs. Okay, that's what I'm trying to say
We met had a meeting one time with a gentleman and this gentleman was starting a company
I'd love to know where this gentleman is today. The gentleman was starting a company where they would take
based on your Facebook
application that was on your phone or your Google app at the time, your Google information, they would ping your phone, determine where you were exactly within like 50 feet, and then they would serve you up.
Geofencing.
Geofencing and advertisement to a particular shop or
service that was close by.
And then they would buy all the information from whatever company, Lexus, Nexus, or whoever,
and triangulate that information so that the owner of that place that just got served up
that ad would know exactly who you were and where you were, so that when they came in,
they would already be prepared to serve you or know what your preferences were or your taste. This was like highly advanced at the time,
but it has all happened long since. Everybody knows the information. Are we really scared
about TikTok having that information? I don't know, but I guess I would feel a little bit better if
Kevin O'Leary owned it because I'd rather Kevin have my information than a bunch of random Chinese
communists.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, I like your reasoning.
Kevin, give me a call.
I'll help you work out this deal with TikTok.
He's buying it for $300 billion, supposedly.
Who's giving him that loan?
Because I don't think Kevin has $300 billion.
Yeah, I don't know.
He's raising it.
A bunch of hedge funds.
That's what happens.
That's how it all works.
A bunch of hedge funds. That's how Elon got Twitter. Bunch of hedge funds. Private equity,
whatever that means. Equity that's private, that no one knows about. That's what it is.
It's a complicated machinery. I don't have time to explain it here on the show, but just
trust me. It's private and it's equitized. That's all you need to know. It's private
and it's equitable, just not for you. Okay? You understand? All right. I've been on my
rant for 30 minutes. Now we're done. Let's do this.
Sometimes you just have to let it out.
I just saw Mark Zuckerberg right before we got on the show and it made me angry and I
thought I'd go on a little rant about how I'm feeling about the oligarchs that are now
ruling our society. I'm not mad at their money. I really am not. I believe that in America,
you should be able to be a billionaire if you work hard and you do it correctly. And I think it might be hard to always do things correctly when you're a billionaire,
but that's a different conversation for a different day.
But let's not just cuckold them.
Let's make sure they're doing right by at least most people.
Do you know what I'm saying, Chrissy?
I know what you're saying.
Well, thank you for agreeing with me, at least on this one thing.
All right, we'll take a break.
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Wow, what, seven to nine inches of snow in some locations is now predicted.
Oh, is that like North Georgia?
It's gonna rain.
It's gonna rain.
It's gonna rain.
No, that's here.
That's here.
Where we're at right now.
Metro?
Metro, North Metro.
But just south of here, like where you live.
Let's look at that prediction.
One to three inches.
Yeah, I saw the one to three earlier.
Well, just stay up where the other house you stay at and then you'll get all the snow.
I don't want to!
Okay, all right.
Settle down, my 15th child.
Simmer down.
Yeah, you know, hey listen, maybe it turns into something that we all
need to be concerned about.
Bring it, it's a Friday.
Yeah. I will have more confidence in this, I think, tomorrow, because I think 24 hours
out, they're generally, they get within the earshot of it.
But you just take those hurricanes, for example, you think after so many years of data with the
hurricanes, that they could predict with some kind of certainty, like a cone of certainty.
But it always seems to be extraordinarily uncertain. A cone of certainty.
That needs to be like a band name. Yes, Cone of Certainty, Brian's excuse or Brian's escape.
Yeah.
Brian's escape with Cone of Uncertainty.
Opening.
This Friday.
Yeah, the day it snows.
This Friday at the Chameleon Club on 10th Street
in very dangerous downtown Atlanta.
Cone of certainty with Brian's escape.
And isolated fingering, special guest isolated fingering.
Special guest, get your bell rung. Bing bong! Chameleon Club, remember
that?
I do.
Do you remember the Chameleon Club?
Yeah.
Very.
Wow. The rec room. Oh God, all those places. I was just reading that last night that while
EDM, electronic dance music, has seen it is like the WWE is having its moment in
the sun.
It is really having its moment in the sun.
Oh yeah.
Did you see any of the stuff from the Sphere over New Year's?
Yes, I did.
It looked incredible.
I was like, I really wanted to be there.
I know.
That looked so cool.
Chrissy, I thought to myself, I'm so happy that Enya is seeing a resurgence, you know, ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah It is. It can't be enema. I think it is enema, actually. It is like E-N-N-A-M-A. Look at the enema sphere.
I don't know if that's the way it's pronounced.
Anima?
Anima.
See?
Anima.
A-N-Y-M-A.
And you know what?
That guy's dating Grimes.
What?
Yeah.
We got a whole rabbit hole with that, with him and the sphere and then who, yeah, Grimes
was part of it.
I will tell you what, I am 100,
like most of my business predictions,
I was 100% wrong about the sphere.
I thought the sphere would be a gimmick
and eventually they'd be playing like, you know,
National Geographic whale movies on the town.
Like IMAX.
Yeah, like IMAX movies that were specially made for it.
And I was 100% wrong. And even the video
is pretty impressive. Oh my God, yeah. I went over the summer.
Yeah, I know you saw the dead there. I'd like to see the dead there too. I think that would be
great. I'd love to see fish there. I think they're going to also make a return apparently,
according to my fish sources. They're doing CES out there right now.
It's hard to believe that I even have fish sources, but I do.
CES and the porn show are
together every year, just to let you know. The AVN Awards and the CES are together every year.
I think they are anyway. I believe that's been going on for a long time. But that sphere is a
technological achievement of epic proportions. And everyone who's been there, and I've talked
to a number of people who have, including you, really have been very impressed by what they have managed to accomplish. And
it's no gimmick. Like, it really is a technological feat, because apparently, no matter where you sit
in the entire building, you're either going to get bad vertigo and feel like you're going to fall down, or
you're just going to see the visuals of a lifetime in an electronic setting, like a
television screen type setting.
Yeah, I mean, it's like surrounding you.
And then also there's stuff to do with the seats.
They move and shake.
They rumble, yeah.
And there's smoke stuff and whatever.
Anyways, it's amazing.
I was blown away.
And the thing that I think is the biggest
technical accomplishment is the 100,000 plus speakers
that are in the building that are directed
at every single seat in the same way
so that you, no matter where you are,
can hear, have the exact same audio experience,
which is like a live music lover's dream.
Because we all know that depending on where you are and what venue it is, you-
There's some seats that are better than others for the sound.
Of course. Yeah. Like, I kind of know where to sit inside of the State Farm Arena in order
to have a good experience. I kind of understand if, you know, in an outdoor venue where you should stand to
hear something well, the Fox Theater, exactly. The Fox Theater is one of those few places,
I think, where you pretty, you have a pretty good seat no matter what, unless you're sitting behind
a post. But here's the point. The point is, is like, that's, that is amazing that this guy
had this dream, went a billion dollars over budget and managed to ride it out to
bring together one of the most amazing venues or the most amazing venue that has ever been
created and the experience is worth all of the hype.
And I think I can't wait to experience it.
I'm really excited.
And to answer you, yeah, I saw Anima or whatever it is.
I saw a bunch of those videos.
Wow.
Yeah, with like the robot thing coming in and looking and oh my god, I was, I just,
I loved it.
It's, yeah, I mean, everybody in the audience was taking a video of this, so that part might
have annoyed me a little bit, but there are millions of videos out there.
Christine's looking at one right now.
It's so cool.
It is so fucking cool.
And I had no idea this, Anima or whoever it was, even existed.
Me either. I thought, I literally thought when I breezed by the article that it was Enya.
And I was like, Enya, good for them.
I can't believe they're still alive, let alone making it.
No, he's like an Italian-American DJ.
Yeah, and quite amazing.
Anyway, so here's the reason why I even brought EDM up is because EDM saw a 17% increase in global revenue in general,
the category of music in live entertainment and sales and streams and all that, a $17.5
billion industry right now.
Some of the largest outdoor shows, some of the largest festivals are EDM.
When everybody seems to be suffering a little bit, except for of festivals are EDM, when everybody seems to be suffering a little
bit, except for of course Mempho, when everybody seems to be suffering a little bit in the
live music industry, electronic dance music is not.
But here is a weird thing that is happening.
There is now fewer late night, overnight clubs to go to, dance clubs to go to, than any time
in the last 40 years. They're
closing at a rapid rate. People do not or are not raving anymore. They're not going
overnight, you know, they're not going late night to clubs to see this EDM, to see the
dance music like they used to in droves. So, while everything else is kind of seeing a
boost, a boom, including daytime
live EDM shows. Yeah, anytime. You know, I've seen this, like these people in New York have put together this sober rave, the morning sober rave. Have you seen this? I saw that, yes. Yeah, the silent disco one.
No, this is a different one, but they do have silent disco too.
I have a friend who got in on the silent disco thing early.
He worked at Simcoe FM, the fashion plate. Remember Chris Martin? The fashion plate. He got in early on, bought into one of those businesses.
And every other day, he's at a church, he's at a conference, he's at a rave, he's somewhere with
those headphones, thousands of them giving them out to people. He must be fucking killing it.
His business must have grown 10x because he's really doing well for himself.
But these sober raves, these people on Instagram started inviting people, like, you know, they'll
invite them the night before to this location the next morning. Sober morning rave. Yeah, before you
go to work. And before they go to work and they go and they dance and then they go to work and
probably go happy to work. You know what I'm saying? You got a little bit of the, you know,
you got a little bit of the fussies out. Yeah, you got the endorphins going. I would argue that everybody's sober, but that,
you know, that's just me. And I'm sure there's a few, a few people who are still up from the night
before. Yeah, but when I was in my early 20s, while I admittedly did not do this every night
of the week, I used to love to go to those clubs in downtown Atlanta, you know, twice, three times a month, and go listen
to electronic dance music.
Did you know that I was, for a while, was an EDM promoter?
Did you know this?
The many machinations of Brian.
The onion, the limes, the cheese, the cheese.
Yes, you have lived.
It just keeps peeling. The many machinations of Brian. The onion. The lives you have lived.
Yes.
It's just, it's peeling.
If you had to put a gravestone with all of my professions on it, it'd be like the Washington
Monument.
Was this before or after 33P?
Willie.
This was after 33P, but before La Strada, it was sometime in that weird space right there.
Before 33P. No, after 33 space right there. Before 33P.
No, after 33P.
No, 33P was when I was like 16 years old, 17 years old.
I was a baby then.
You went from Eddie Vedder to EDM.
That's right.
It's a natural transition.
Chrissy, I'm telling you what.
It was a weird time to be alive, and Brian was as weird as possible.
And I think I just see like, I'm one of those guys who hops on the trend seven days after
it already has peaked and started, you know.
I buy Bitcoin at a hundred thousand, it goes back down to 60.
You know what I'm saying?
Actually, altcoin is one of the only things that I predicted correctly.
But anyway, I met a couple of guys at a
restaurant that I was working at and one of them was a likened himself a DJ
back when Gay Raj, he likened himself, I'll say likened himself a DJ because he
used to put CDs of mixed music together and we used to give him out. And I helped... Oh, mixed tape. I helped promote some of his shows. How did that go?
It didn't go well because not many people showed up.
And then one time I put together a fashion show slash EDM concert.
And the only thing I got out of it was to see some girl's boobs because she changed
in front of me.
That was the only thing.
I got no money. Worth it. Yeah, it was worth it. It was one down at this Buckhead Club. But for a minute
there, I saw the EDM.
You likened yourself to an EDM.
I likened myself to an EDM promoter. It was fun while it lasted. And guess what the name
of the company was that I created?
Oh God, I can only imagine.
Jam Land Productions.
Oh, Jam Land Productions. Oh, Jam Land. Jam Land Productions. Goes right along with that EDM flavor.
Presented by Jam Land.
Presented by Jam Land Productions.
DJ Shit for Brains.
And the Cone of Insecurity.
And Cone of Insecurity.
And starring and on the turntables, the world's lamest 54 year old white man.
We had this guy, he was a hippie.
He was like a way hippie and he was very not smart.
He was like, his brain was fried.
He would be like, and he sold cocaine for like a living. That's
what he did. But he decided that he was going to get it on Jam Land Productions, that he
could do the turntables. And he got up one night.
You're like, okay.
He got up one night last. There was no one in the club. It was like a Monday night.
A Monday night?
Chrissy. It was like a Monday night. It was the only night we could give in to anybody
to give us a night.
And so we put together a fashion show.
That didn't work.
We had DJ Shit for Brains play.
That didn't work.
There was like seven people in the club.
Most of them were employees that were off.
You know what I'm saying?
Like employees that weren't working.
It was really terrible.
But the guy promised us a month.
So on the fourth week, the guy who we had, the DJ whatever, who was going to spin, who actually probably
could have brought 10 or 15 people into the door because he kind of had been doing this for a while,
he decided mysteriously to cancel. He was like, I'm sorry, guys, can't do it. And so we got this
guy, Pete, the hippie, the 54 year old, long haired, tieye wearing, sandals covered. I mean, he wore sandals everywhere.
There was no place else to go with it. We needed somebody. And literally, the guy brought
a tape player, plugged it in and started playing live grateful dance. And he tried to spin
a record on top of it.
At least nobody was there.
Hey, listen, he was being creative.
He doesn't ruin your reputation.
So we got like, for this, we got like 20% of the door, which equals zero dollars every
night, all four of those nights.
And then we also got a hundred dollar bar credit, which I would burn through in like
a first hour, right?
Of course. Because I'd be buying drinks for any girls that were, you know, I just was like, hey,
I was like, yeah, I'm a jam land productions, put it on the jam land tab. You should have
seen these bartenders. They were like, I've seen a million of you and you're making me
work on a Monday night for no money and you're not going to tip me. How do I know that? Because
you can't afford to buy drinks. I would come in and I'd be wearing like a Hoya Barra, like
a Cuban short sleeve shirt, middle of winter pants that were too big. Cause I couldn't
afford to. Yes. Birkenstocks. I'd come walking in like, like, like, you know, Mr. Club. And
I'd be like, get the lighting on!
Where's the speaker?
Who got that?
Are the girls ready?
Where's the smoke machine?
Yeah, do we have any dancing girls?
Where's the smoke machine?
I'd go in there, like I took charge of the place.
One time I walked back in the office of the club.
Oh, I bet they loved that.
And the guy goes like this, the manager goes like this.
He just wagged his finger at me.
No, no, no, no.
And I go, oh, I just had a question.
And he was like, I'll be out in a minute.
This is for management.
Here, management.
You're just a shithead that's making us no money.
And so I was flying around the club talking to seven, you know, trying to make him, you
know, I was the guy, just doing nothing actually, it's probably what I was doing, sweating.
I had got four nights and none of them had worked out.
I was so bad at this.
And once the guy plugged in the tape player
to play his old Grateful Dead,
I didn't even ask for another.
San Francisco 78.
San Francisco 78 plus Enya.
And put it together.
Wiki, Wiki, Wiki.
Home picture now. Sugar magno, yeah.
Down by the sunshine.
Wiki, wiki, wiki.
Drop the acid!
So let me explain that once that guy got on there and he actually tried to mix the Grateful
Dead live shows into, with a beat.
It was all over. It was game over. The manager came over to me and he was like, what is this? And I go, well, listen, he's got kind of this new style. It's like a little bit,
he's trying to mix the jamming with the, and he's like, I don't think this works, man. And I was
like, well, what do you want me to do? I mean, you know, we had our guy cancel on us. So do you mind
if he just kind of plays it out? The club noodles. The club closed at 2 a.m.
This guy maybe started at 10.30 p.m.
The club mysteriously had to close at midnight.
I'm sure.
But to be fair, there was no one there to close the club with.
Not a one person, not one.
Everybody scattered.
The seven people that were there scattered.
Listen, I don't claim to be a business genius.
Just look at the commercial break.
But I will tell you this.
At least I've tried.
Okay?
You have.
You dabbled.
What's that?
Dibbity dabbled.
Oh man, did I dibbity dabble?
Hey man, can that $100 go toward cocaine?
I've got a credit.
Yeah, do you have any?
I got a bar credit.
Can I transfer that to the guy at the end of the bar who is clear is selling cocaine?
Is that okay with you?
How about giving me a tip asshole and then we'll talk?
All right, bro.
Don't get all upset.
Another Bud Light.
That's the other thing, the club guy drinking Bud- running around with a Bud Light in his
hand.
What an asshole I was. You did have your Cuban shirt on.
True. I did have my Cuban shirt on. I've been a real asshole in my life. That's what
I'm coming to realize. I'm kind of a jerk off. When you get older, you realize-
Well, you gotta try this, try that.
Yeah. When you get older, you realize that all those things you say about yourself, they're true.
All right.
Well, we'll try again tomorrow.
Why not?
Yes, we will.
Gustavo going to come in and make an appearance next week.
Don't miss out on it.
TCB infomercial for you on Tuesday.
We had guests lined up, but at least one of them is
canceled because of the wildfires. I hope everybody is okay out there. Yeah we didn't get a
chance to talk about that but I hope everybody's doing okay out in Los
Angeles. Our agents out there, people that we know, so God bless. I hope every...
that's crazy. That is apocalyptic. That is apocalyptic. I know it's so scary. I can
deal with ice and snow. Fire? That's scary. I don't want anything to do with
that. So God bless you if you're out in Los Angeles let us know you're okay. It's so scary. I can deal with ice and snow fire. That's scary. I don't want anything to do with that
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So, but don't mind our spelling.
One of my brothers just texted me.
I was looking at you.
Did you see that?
Did you see that?
Did my brother text you too?
No, I just saw it when I looked at the show today.
Oh, you didn't like, did they mean that?
I don't think they meant that.
Oh, you mean on the website? No, like on the show today. Oh, you did? I was like, did they mean that? I don't think they meant that.
Oh, you mean on the website?
No, like on our podcast thing.
Oh, OK, anyway.
No, my brother was pointing out a typo in our actual website.
He's like, oh, I think you misspelled this.
We'll get it right.
It's only been up there for a year.
We'll get it right eventually.
Don't worry about it.
All right, add the commercial break on Instagram.
On tick tock. I'm wondering where Pete went. Whatever happened.
Well, I was going to ask you, did you ever see what happened to him?
I know. I know what happened to Pete. He actually bought Jamland Productions.
He bought it from us for $500 and a gram of cocaine.
He bought it from us for $500 and a gram of cocaine. And youtube.com slash the commercial break for every single episode of the commercial
break now on video.
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All right, Chrissy, that's all I can do for now.
I think so.
But I'll tell you that I love you.
I love you.
Best to you. Best to you.
Best to you.
And best to you out there in the podcast universe.
Until next time, we will say, we do say and we must say,
Goodbye! I gotta get some cocaine! It's driving me crazy!