The Commercial Break - Not-So-Happy Dino

Episode Date: March 7, 2024

Bryan & Krissy discuss that new sweatpant feel and some "fun" experiences for kids. Optimist’s Spring Bryan & Krissy’s beastly baggage Bryan’s walmart sweatpants He’s travelin’ light Gl...asgow’s Willy Wonka exhibit Highway robbery of the average consumer 4 year lockdown/TCB anniversary From covid, to war, to political turmoil! Barefoot soccer on legos Sports that aren’t sports Gambling on Disney? Fact or crap We should have a TCB game Two male whales having sex Pizzles LINKS: Send us show ideas, comments, questions or concerns by texting us   212.433.3TCB text or leave us a voicemail Watch TCB on YouTube Creator: Bryan Green Co-Host: Bryan Green Co-Host: Krissy Hoadley Producer: Christina A.  Producer: Gustavo B.  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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Starting point is 00:00:00 If your name is Sarah and all your blouses and shirts are stretched out, you think it's because the dinosaur has been trying your shirts on? You're not sure which dinosaur? Uh, Sarah, it's probably the Triceratops. On this episode of the Commercial Break... Roll down the windows because you're going to have an experience with a real live dinosaur, which was a puppet that was bought at another dinosaur exhibit on the way out of the gift shop.
Starting point is 00:00:30 Do you know what I'm saying? And some guy comes up and he's like, oh, do you wanna meet a happy little dinosaur? To which my kid goes, no. Right. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Yeah, boy. Oh yeah, guys and kids, welcome back to the commercial break starts now. Yeah, boy!
Starting point is 00:00:47 Oh, yeah, guys, I can't get into welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the beautiful co-host of this show, Chris and Joey Hoadley. Best to you, Chris. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Thanks for joining us. Very rainy and cold day.
Starting point is 00:01:02 What the fuck is up with this weather? I was gonna say the same thing I feel so badly for the Plants and trees because they're starting to bloom. Yeah, I have like a full daffodil situation Daffodils are blooming all over my neighborhood and the little buds are peaking Not the Jamaican buds. Oh, OK.
Starting point is 00:01:26 Well. The dogwood buds, whatever, the little buds are starting to poke out. Because it was in the 70s. It was in the 70s. And sunny for days. And then now it went boom, cold, rainy. Crazy.
Starting point is 00:01:42 Like, in one hour, it went from 72 degrees to 30. It felt like one hour anyway. It was crazy. Like in one hour, it went from 72 degrees to 30. It felt like one hour anyway. It was crazy. No, it was. At my house, the storm rolled in and it dropped 20 degrees. Well, it got cold real quick. I know that much. And it wreaks havoc on your allergies.
Starting point is 00:01:57 It wreaks havoc on everything. They call this in Atlanta, we call this fake spring number one. Exactly. Fake spring number one. Because I don't know if you recall, but there was one year, many years ago, where we had a fake spring,
Starting point is 00:02:12 and then in early March, we then had like 13 inches of snow that then stuck for 10 days or something like that. So I feel like this is fake spring. It goes you into thinking it's beautiful outside, then it trashes everything else. Yep. And God damn it. Including your guard.
Starting point is 00:02:28 I know. Well, here's, you know, in the last episode, I bitchin' complained about my yard guy, well, Juan, who I love and I've been with for, we've been together for eight years. We might have Juan on the show. Yeah, we might have to have Juan on the show. He's pretty funny actually.
Starting point is 00:02:40 If you talk to him in person, he actually is pretty funny. But so I get off, you get off the air yesterday and I'm so incensed by Juan continuing to do the lawn right in front of this window every time we open up the microphone it feels like sometimes two or three times a week. It's the middle of winter. You don't need to do that. So after we get off, I'm so incensed, I'm like, Juan, we need to talk. I know, I saw you. So he calls me later and I say,
Starting point is 00:03:08 Juan, we've talked about this like 40 times. That's gotta be the 41st time we've talked about this. Can you please do the lawn care outside of the hours when I'm trying to do work? What if he was like, that's not my team? What if he said that's not me? What are you talking about? That's some other yard company.
Starting point is 00:03:30 I'd be like, well, thanks for the free lawn care. Talk to you later, ignore, ignore. Yeah, what if he said, I'm only coming there once every two weeks, at night. What are you talking about? I think that would be really funny. And I would be like, did I forget to update my address when I moved?
Starting point is 00:03:46 Right. It's like he's been doing my neighbor's lawn for the last eight years. So then he goes, well, listen, the only reason why we came early this week is because it's gonna rain for the next 10 days. And then I felt like shit. I was like, oh, okay, all right.
Starting point is 00:04:01 But can you still please do it outside of the hours when I have to work? It's really distracting. Sometimes it wakes up the baby. I said, I know that I'm not trying to make your life difficult. I really am not, but there's gotta be some situation upon which you are driving by my house in the not four hours on just a few days a week
Starting point is 00:04:18 where we happen to be in the studio. And, you know, I'm not really specific about what I do because I don't like to be really specific about what I do with anybody. I not really specific about what I do because I don't like to be really specific about what I do with anybody. I'm rather embarrassed of what I do. Right. It's like I have a- Media sales.
Starting point is 00:04:32 Yeah, a Patreon. I'd rather say Patreon. You say Patreon, I say media sales. Yeah, I know. That's what we put on forums. We put advertising sales. Because that's what we put on forms. We put advertising sales, because that's what we do, essentially. What do we like?
Starting point is 00:04:48 You know, the school form or something, advertising sale. And I know that the principal knows that's bullshit. So I tell him, I just say, listen, it's important that, you know, I have a little bit of quiet when I'm doing my work. And unfortunately, it seems like you come every time I'm getting ready to do that quiet part of my work and he says listen I'm sorry we'll do our best to figure it out so I kind of felt bad that I went off on Juan here on the show but then he really did have a good reason for being there he's like you know he had a good reason for being
Starting point is 00:05:19 multiple times in one week well that's what I also told him. I said, But during the hours, there's still that. I asked him, I said, well, how much gasoline do you use in one lawn cutting that takes, you know, 15 to 30 minutes, like mine does? And he said, well, I don't really know, but it's usually about half a gallon in total, I think is what I've estimated to be on each,
Starting point is 00:05:39 like, you know, kind of normal sized lawn. And I'm like, you're here three times a week in the winter, you're cutting the mud. I go, what could you possibly be doing? He's like, no, I like to normal sized lawn. And I'm like, you're here three times a week in the winter, you're cutting the mud. I go, what could you possibly be doing? He's like, no, I like to make sure it's neat and clean. He's like, I don't want you to get overgrown. And so now I feel bad that like, Juan's trying to be sweet, what's gonna get overgrown?
Starting point is 00:05:55 The lava rocks out front, the pine straw. It would take a long time for it to get overgrown. Even in the spring, when that grass grows so fast, I don't think too, but there's only little patches of grass. So even if it gets overgrown, it's not really that big of a deal. Not like I got four junk cars out in front of my yard with a bunch of, you know, cudd zoo growing over them.
Starting point is 00:06:21 And by the way, for those of you that are probably like, oh, white people problems, he's got a lawn guy. I have 30 children. I don't have time to do the lawn. It's really, truly, it's a big task. It's like for me, anyway, I'm just lazy. I'm trying to make an excuse for my children, but I'm just lazy.
Starting point is 00:06:39 Hey, you like my pants? You like my white pants? I do. You like those? What company? What brand do you think these are? These comfortable active wear pants here. Walmart.
Starting point is 00:06:53 This is a loaded question. Walmart. There you go. I'm about to let you in on a little secret. So I'm up at my dad's the, I do a couple, last weekend. And my dad lives in South Carolina and he lives in like a remote part of South Carolina.
Starting point is 00:07:06 I'm not totally remote, it's near Clemson, but it's kind of like in that area. I drive through that area on my way to Greenville. Yeah, there's a couple of, you know, I'd say small to medium sized cities are up there and Clemson of course has a bunch of college students live there, so it's a college town. And so it's kind of in between like a very small city
Starting point is 00:07:21 and Clemson. And of course there's 30 Walmart's in between. You know, this like of the Walmart on every corner. So I go to my dad's and I, so Astrid is so incensed with me because I pack everything in the closet to go to my dad's for a day. Right.
Starting point is 00:07:38 Right, for one night I'm packing like a whole suitcase full of shit because I never know, but Astrid points out. If you and I were. I know, if you and I were a couple we would have like our baggage bags and bags and bags for a weekend we did the Delta counter would be like $3,000 in baggage charge sir Jeff calls my one huge one the beast. My dad said it should be illegal. It should be illegal, I get it. I totally understand.
Starting point is 00:08:07 I took that one and a regular size one. Geez, really? You were gone for seven days. Well, you know what you never know. I do get it. You never know. Oh, if I'm going to Jamaica? Meanwhile, I wore two dresses.
Starting point is 00:08:21 And one pair of shorts. No shoes. And like nothing in a bathing suit the whole time. So, and my wife rightfully points out, you're going to go to the mellow mushroom, the barbecue place or the lake. What could you possibly need to pack? Like where pack some jeans, you know, it's winter. So she says pack some jeans, two sweaters, a couple of t-shirts, and sleep pants.
Starting point is 00:08:41 So she's so incensed every time we go to my dad that she's got to pack all this, she's trying to pack for the kids and all that stuff too. So I say to myself, my wife- Right, she's packing for five people. She is packing for five people. She's repacking my stuff. Oftentimes I'll find that I'll put a bunch of T-shirts and I'll be like, okay, maybe I'll wear that.
Starting point is 00:08:59 And then we get to a location and the T-shirts are no longer there. And I'm like, what happened to my blue Ferris Bueller shirt. She's like if you want to see it watch any episode of the commercial break on YouTube It's there every time It's true. It is true So I say to myself on this particular trip. I said it you know what it's enough Brian Astrid is 100% right as she always is You you're being an idiot like you don't need anything to go to your dad's house
Starting point is 00:09:27 and if you do need anything, it's likely your dad will have it, right? I mean, if you need like a jacket or something like that, your dad will have it. So tell you what, you're going for two nights, put in three t-shirts, four pair of underwear, two pair of socks, one pair of pants, sleep pants, and that's it, and then your toiletries. And
Starting point is 00:09:46 so I was so proud of myself because that's what I did, or that's what I thought I did. So we get to my dad's house, I'm unpacking all this stuff, I'm, you know, trying to get it ready in the room and all that for the kids in the bath time and all that. And I go to put on my comfortable sleep pants from Lulu Lemon. Oh, that's right. They do have good pants. Yeah, I have one pair from Lulu Lemon. I had to mortgage the, that's right. I was like, yeah, I have one pair from Lulu lemon I had to mortgage the house for that, but I'm like, okay Um, and then I realize there are no sleep pants. I didn't pack sleep pants
Starting point is 00:10:13 I didn't pack half my toiletries. I forgot to put a t-shirt to go out to dinner with and like a shirt to go out to dinner with I forgot everything You were out of your I was out of my comfort zone, Chrissy. And I know that my dad and I are not the same size as far as pants are concerned. And so I just started freaking because I'm like, I'm not gonna wear my jeans all night long. That's gonna be a bunch of discomfort.
Starting point is 00:10:35 I just wanna go upstairs, play with the kids in my comfy sweatpants, right? Yes. So I say, okay, guys, I gotta, I'll be back. I'm gonna go to the closest Walmart. I'm gonna go find myself a $9 pair of shitty sweatpants that'll probably dissolve in the wash the second I put them in there and I'll just chalk it up
Starting point is 00:10:51 to a learning lesson. Go up to this Walmart and I go in and they have the world's biggest clothing section. Like not a normal sized Walmart clothing section but like a really big, the entire middle of the store is It's like a super Walmart, but it has like an acre literally an acre of clothing NASCAR t-shirts, you know Disney whatever they have Disney Marvel everything under the Sun all kind of sweatpants active wear jog, joggers, coats, boots, ammunition for your gun.
Starting point is 00:11:27 I mean, they've got everything you could possibly need in that clothing section. And I'm looking and I'm looking and I'm looking and I cannot for the life of me find the size. I'm like, okay, I'll just gonna buy this $7 pair of sweatpants. Everything is 1x up. We know anything under 1x.
Starting point is 00:11:46 I go to the next, you know, little, whatever. What do they call those? A little carousel of shitty fucking clothing. What do they call that? Clothing carousel? Yeah, maybe. I don't know what, you know what I'm talking about. I do.
Starting point is 00:11:55 And they're separated by sizes with those tags. Yes. Nothing in my size. Even though it says there's some in my size, there, or you look at the carousel and you go, oh, there's the whatever, medium or small. There they are, let me, no, nothing. And I'm like, wow, fuck man, there's nothing.
Starting point is 00:12:10 I start rummaging through the store and I cannot find a pair of comfortable pants in my size. I thought this would be really strange because usually there's all kind of sizes at Walmart from extra small to all the way up to five X. So I go to the dressing room where one of the nice attendants is there and I say, hey, I'm really sorry to bother you,
Starting point is 00:12:29 but do you have any sweatpants maybe in a medium? And she goes, oh, I don't know, honey, you're gonna have to dig around for that. And I go, why? Is it medium? Like a size a lot of people wear? And she goes, well, we order based on how many people buy what size. So it might be that people aren't ordering using very many mediums or
Starting point is 00:12:52 smalls, that might be the situation. But honey, when we do get those mediums smalls, they gone, they gone, they gone. And I'm like, yeah, okay, got it. 10, four, you know, medium is probably a pretty average, you know, medium. It's an average. Yeah. It's an average of the average, right? So probably.
Starting point is 00:13:07 So she goes, but I'll tell you what, look that box up there, see that box with them white sweat pants? You might, that's brand new, you might pull that down, you might get one. And I was like, oh, okay, so it's up on the top fucking shelf. You know, of course there's no one there
Starting point is 00:13:18 to help me do anything. So I'm like, okay, I'm jumping, trying to pull the box down. And I'm like, this is embarrassing. Anybody's taking a video of me, it's gonna be on TMZ. I wish it would be on TMZ actually. So I'm the box down. I'm like, this is embarrassing. Anybody's taking a video of me. It's gonna be on TMZ. I wish it would be on TMZ actually. So I'm pulling it down.
Starting point is 00:13:28 You know, I yank it down and it's a pair of bright white sweatpants that look like Lululemon. These things look like Lululemon. Yeah, they do. And they're whatever they are. 1299, 1399, but I'm like, okay, I was hoping for the 799 version
Starting point is 00:13:43 because I didn't think I would wear them very much. You know, they would get uncomfortable after a couple of washes or whatever. And I thought I'm not gonna spend a bunch of money because I don't have a bunch of money to spend. So let me just, you know, get this. So 1399, 1499, whatever it is. I grabbed the, I found a small.
Starting point is 00:13:58 So I grab a small and I'm like, okay, this looks like it's gonna fit. Chrissy, I swear on all that is holy. They're so comfortable. They're so fucking comfortable. Good to know. And they look like joggers. They look like Lube Lemon.
Starting point is 00:14:14 They look like, yeah, they look like. They look thick. They are. They're quality. They are, they're soft on the inside, soft on the outside. They look a little, is it like fleece on the inside? Oh yeah, it's like that little, it's fake fleece.
Starting point is 00:14:24 It's not real fleece, but it's fake fleece. They're cozy. Yeah, with all my leg hair, I just keep on getting these like little white balls stuck in my leg hair, but whatever. You know, I'm not trying to impress anybody except for Astrid and she's already unimpressed. So what am I, you know, I'm not changing her mind anytime soon.
Starting point is 00:14:37 So I think to myself, wow, when I get back to my dad's house and I put these on, I'm like, holy shit, these are really comfortable And I can't stop talking about them the whole weekend I think my dad was sick of me wanted me to go home because I was like these white pants They're so good dad look at my white pants like I know I've seen them Brie like you I got it you got a pair of pants at Walmart. Congratulations 100,000 people a day do that now you're all now all of a sudden you realize
Starting point is 00:15:04 That you don't have to pay $600 for a nice pair of pants. What do you want me to do? You're an idiot. You spend your money. Congratulations. One time in your life you spent your money wisely. Right. I was like, don't be a naysayer, dad.
Starting point is 00:15:19 I'm just telling you, there's a nice paint. You gotta go to Walmart, get yourself a pants. So now I've been telling everybody since I got back from dance house, I'm like, you gotta get yourself a white pair. You gotta go to Walmart, get yourself a pants. So now I've been telling everybody since I got back from dance house, I'm like, you gotta get yourself a white pair of pants from Walmart, these things are super fucking comfortable. I called my brother, I was talking to a friend, I said to Astrid, I said,
Starting point is 00:15:32 Astrid, don't ever buy me anything more than $14.99 again. Go to Walmart. Let's, if it's a birthday and you're looking for a good gift for me, get me like 10 pairs of these in different colors because I would just wear these all day and all night. Now, I'm not a guy who typically has bought clothing at Walmart, but I have bought clothing at Walmart.
Starting point is 00:15:50 There's nothing wrong with the Walmart clothes, yeah. T-shirts, underwear, socks. There's not one near me. So I guess there's a Target near me, and so I use Target as kind of the Walmart. However, Walmart has that new service. They've really been trying to come out and compete with Amazon. Oh, yeah, yeah, service. They've really been trying to come out and compete with Amazon.
Starting point is 00:16:06 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Where it's the free shipping and whatever. So I've thought about that. We get groceries. We don't buy certain groceries from Walmart. But the stuff that you're gonna find at every other store, we'll buy from Walmart. Listen.
Starting point is 00:16:18 Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Stuff like that, yeah. Cereal and the regular stuff that you would, any toilet paper, if we don't, if we're not going to Costco or Sam's or whatever. Um, but I am just like super jazzed that I found this little gem and now I'm to you, look at me. And now, you know, we can talk about Walmart all day long, good or bad for society. I don't know. I don't
Starting point is 00:16:39 give a shit. I just know that there are millions and millions of people that depend on Walmart for their groceries, for their clothing, for their, and I don't shame them. I think that great. Go get your, life is tough enough as it is. Save a buck. Absolutely. And I saw something in the news recently that they were upping the pay for employees. They need to.
Starting point is 00:17:00 Yeah. And they need to pay the part-time employees and put them on health benefits too. Walmart can afford it But that's a whole nother like political angle and I don't want to get into it That's for a different show at a different time That's for a totally different show that takes these things seriously Not for the commercial break who can't even get facts right right, but I will tell you Chrissy You got to get yourself a pair of these pants. I'm gonna buy one for you when whenever when we get money. I'm gonna buy
Starting point is 00:17:23 $12.99 a pair of these sweatpants for you. Whenever we get money, I'm gonna buy a $12.99 pair of these sweatpants for you. Okay. And I'll be pleased to give it to you as a gift. I will widely accept them. And I'll be pleased to leave the Walmart tag right on them and say, I buy my gifts at Walmart. And this episode is sponsored in part by Walmart. Almost like Lulu Lemon. Walmart. We see you parked out there for days. Walmart. We know you do drug deals out front. Walmart. You don't have to tell your friends those aren't Lululemon.
Starting point is 00:17:53 Walmart. Walmart. We have four liter bottles of Coca-Cola. Right, four. Walmart. We don't know where we get our meat either. Walmart. Who needs to wear shoes more than a week? Walmart. Shop for your kids here because seriously.
Starting point is 00:18:20 Because seriously, why are you spending money on designer clothing? Yeah. Kids change clothing so much. Oh, I know. Oh, man. And they don't know clothing? This kid's changed clothing so much. Oh, I know. Oh, man. And they don't know the difference. No, I don't know. Even one of my sons likes these Walmart pants.
Starting point is 00:18:32 He's like, you know, this is a good soft pants. And I'm like, thanks, bud. I got them from Walmart. And he's like, I know, you said. You mentioned. I'm running around like an evangelist. I'm like, hey, look at these pants. Where do you think they're from?
Starting point is 00:18:46 I don't know, Brian. I don't know. Urban Outdoors, right? Walmart. Yeah, you mentioned. You mentioned, Brian. Good for you. You happen to mention.
Starting point is 00:18:55 I'm turning a corner here, Chrissy, and I'm really proud of myself. Good for you, yes. I'm no longer packing heavy. I'm packing light. And what's the old widespread song? Traveling Light. Yeah, Traveling Light. Yeah, it's the only widespread song? Traveling light. Yeah, traveling light.
Starting point is 00:19:06 Yeah, it's only widespread. So the way to fly. The only way to fly. No, no, no, no, no, no. That's right. Good old JB. Good old JB. Yes.
Starting point is 00:19:17 Telling us the truth all the time. All right, let's take a break and I'm going to tell you more about my Walmart pants when we get back. Exciting. Well, thank the baby Jesus. about my Walmart pants a week of Vic. Exciting. Ha ha ha. Well, thank the baby Jesus. Brian took a breath and now I will use this opportunity to let you know that we've got a brand new phone number. That's right, it's 212-433-3TCB.
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Starting point is 00:21:40 the Willy Wonka factory tour in Europe. Somebody was like, you know, everyone wants to hate, but no one talks about the kindness of the employees. Okay, we're not making fun of the employees. The employees are there to do a job. They're getting paid to do that. And apparently they did it well, according to people who went.
Starting point is 00:21:58 In case you're not in the loop, Willy Wonka in the chocolate factory, you know the show and the movie and all the shit and the new movie, what is it called? What's that movie? It came out. It's Charlie and the Chocolate. No, the wonderful world of Wonka or whatever starring,
Starting point is 00:22:13 what's his name? Timothy. Timothy Chalet, Chamele, Chamelela. Chamelela. Chamelela. And so some enterprising company decided that they were going to take advantage of the name, the brand, but they didn't call it Willy Wonka's experience.
Starting point is 00:22:29 I think they call it the wonkiness factory or something like that. Something ridiculous that sounds like Willy Wonka to go parents into paying $59.99 per person to get into this experience, the wonkiness experience. Did it have like AI involved in it too or something? Yeah, I'll explain. Oh, yeah, yeah. So what this is supposed to be is a step into the Willy Wonka chocolate factory,
Starting point is 00:22:55 but not actually Willy Wonka. It's the wonkiness factory that's supposed to be like Willy Wonka, but of course they can't use the name because it's trade. It's the off brand. It's the off brand. It's the Lululemonmon pants from Wal-Wire You know I'm saying yes, so
Starting point is 00:23:07 these parents pay an enormous Absorbent amount of money to send their children into what they think is going to be an experience based on the movies and what they get is a very Poorly quickly put together. This is basically the firefest of children's activities, right? Yes. Yeah I mean they have curtains hanging like we have curtains hanging here at the studio to make these little rooms and the little rooms are sparsely. It's like a linoleum floor. It's in a, like a school gym or something. The linoleum floor is white.
Starting point is 00:23:37 The curtains are black. It's very brightly lit in there. The walls don't even go all the way up to the ceiling and they sparsely decorate it with something that kind of resembles what might be in a Wonka factory. If you, if a Wonka factory was, I don't know, out of money. You know what I'm saying? Like it's just terrible. I mean, it's just terrible.
Starting point is 00:23:57 They had like little plastic mushrooms on the floor and they had a Wonka bar, like blow up thing. There was nothing that resembled Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. It wasn't charming or magical in any way, shape or form. They had a hall of mirrors. They literally went to Target, ordered, bought six cheap mirrors
Starting point is 00:24:20 and put them in places along this hallway. A hallway that wasn't even a hallway, it was curtains hanging down, and then you pass by the mirror, but a hall of mirrors, you're supposed to actually have a hall, and then actual mirrors. There wasn't anything cool about it,
Starting point is 00:24:36 anything interesting about it, and these parents took to social media to say what in the fuck we demand our money back. The kids got like a half a cup of lemonade or something. Half a cup of lemonade. It was like they were getting dosed like, you know, I don't know, but you know, when you go to, like you see those people who go, not to,
Starting point is 00:24:55 when you get off heroin, what's that drug that you take? Methadone. Methadone. You go to the methadone clinic and there's like a little bit of, I've seen the videos of like a little bit of liquid and you take it and they make sure that. It's like in a little tiny cup. Yeah, little tiny- From the dentist.
Starting point is 00:25:07 Dixie cup, yes, the dentist cups. Like when they put a little bit of mouthwash and say, rinse your mouth out. That's what it was. And it was lemonade that looked like piss. And then they got exactly one piece of candy that wasn't even Wonka candy. It was like an M&M.
Starting point is 00:25:22 They got one M&M. Oh no. That's what they got for their, whatever it was, 59 pounds or something like that. It is fucking insane. And here's why I'm so charged up about this. This is reminding me of something. Yes.
Starting point is 00:25:36 Go ahead. Because this reminds me. The dinosaur thing? The dinosaur thing. I was thinking the same thing. Fuck the dinosaur thing. And fucking wonkiness and the fucking factory. He drove through it. I drove through it and fucking wonkiness in the fucking factory.
Starting point is 00:25:45 He drove through it. I drove through it and the dinosaurs were melting. They were like, oh. There was, like give the bags to where you're at. I went to, so here's why I'm in sense because I understand this parents. I feel your fucking pain. The expectation that you have.
Starting point is 00:26:00 Now imagine this, summer of 2020, we're all fucking locked in a box. Everyone's going crazy. No one knows what to do with themselves or their children. Who knows if the world's gonna end or not. Everyone's scared, scared, frightened, right? But there's one shining glimmer of hope in a parents' world, and that is that the dinosaur exhibit,
Starting point is 00:26:21 which is supposed to be, you know, life-sized T-Rex and, you know, velocsized T-Rex and you know velociraptors coming at you they're not going to cancel they're going to put it outside in a drive-through experience that will blow your mind your kids will be so excited and I thought to myself this is it this is our answer this weekend we don't have to stay inside hun we can get in our car we can drive around the dinosaur exhibit. It's gonna be scary and fun.
Starting point is 00:26:47 You know, our kids are gonna love it. This is gonna be the, we did it. We finally found something that we can do without putting everybody's life in danger. Yes. It's at the Atlanta Motor Speedway. Ha ha ha. It's also the middle of summer.
Starting point is 00:27:00 It's like August 29th. Which is very, very hot. Which is hell day here in Atlanta. It's 102 with your air conditioning on. You know what I'm saying? They call it hot Lanna for a reason. It's not because we're all sexy. It's because it's fucking miserable in the summer.
Starting point is 00:27:15 That's why. It's oppressively hot, extremely humid. But we're in a car, so we can turn on the air conditioning and just have ourselves a grand old time. So we get to the Atlanta Motor Speedway, and it's not actually in the Speedway. It's on the parking lot of the Speedway. And we are directed to go and pay our tithe tithes to the shitty experience we are about to see where they charge us 139.99 per car or
Starting point is 00:27:41 something, but I'm like, it's okay. This is going to be great. This is going to be great. Yeah. $39.99 per car or something, but I'm like, it's okay. This is gonna be great. This is gonna be great, yeah. As, but would they smartly put the payment guy or girl in a place where you have not yet seen exactly what you're in for? So I'm like, this is gonna be awesome.
Starting point is 00:27:57 Look how organized this is. We're just gonna follow these cars. As we turn the corner to see the exhibit, there are literally nine animatronic dinosaurs and about six non-moving dinosaurs sitting in a parking lot, melting off their frames. The animatronics are broken, so it's just like you're seeing like a weird video where it keeps like, it's just a little glitch so it's just like you're seeing like a weird video where it keeps like it's a little glitch it's like Jerking yeah, it keeps jerking around and the jerking exposes the frame like that
Starting point is 00:28:32 One of the legs is falling off and there's like a little bit of metal There's didn't they tell you to like roll down the windows? Yes roll down the windows because you're gonna have an experience with a real-life dinosaur, which was a puppet That was bought at another dinosaur exhibit on the way out of the gift shop. Do you know what I'm saying? And some guy comes up and he's like, oh, do you want to meet a happy little dinosaur? To which my kid goes, no.
Starting point is 00:28:57 Right. I know, he was scared. He was scared and he was bored. Yeah, he was like, no, nothing, so I'm good. Dad, why is that guy with something on his hand? It's scary. And the guy had like a cloth puppet in his hand, like a sock puppet.
Starting point is 00:29:14 And he was like, hey, it's happy to dinosaur. He's like putting it in the window and I'm driving it. I'm like, god damn, get that thing. It smells weird. Get that shit away from me. And the motion of the dinosaurs on some of the dinosaurs was created by large fans that were put in front of them that blew the little, like there was little fake trees
Starting point is 00:29:33 and they blew it. Well, one tree was blown sideways, it cracked in half. It was, Chrissy, they didn't even take the time to make sure that the dinosaurs were standing up correctly. And I got robbed of $139. And then once I got into the line, I could not get out of the line. There was no way to leave because the first time,
Starting point is 00:29:54 when I saw it, I really wanted to bail immediately and get my money back. But I was like, okay, for the kids. I'm doing it for the kids. And when I get into the line, now I am stuck because there are other parents who apparently take this way more seriously than I do. I was like, I'm out of here.
Starting point is 00:30:10 There is absolutely no reason for us to be here right now. These dinosaurs are ridiculous. They couldn't look less real if you tried. But we're stuck. Now we're stuck. It took us one hour and 20 minutes to go around 15 dinosaurs. It was like a little U-shape, right? You just went around. But once you're stuck, you're stuck. It took us one hour and 20 minutes to go around 15 dinosaurs. It was like a little U shape, right?
Starting point is 00:30:26 And you just went around. But once you're stuck, you're stuck, you're in it. You can't go anywhere. You're sandwiched in. God damn, everybody was unimpressed. Everybody, they had kids in the back of the truck. They were like, and you could see the kids were like, they had their hands on their show.
Starting point is 00:30:42 Like, what am I doing with my life? What are we doing with our life? What's happening to the world? Chrissy, I've never seen a group of more uninterested people ever, because it was the most ridiculous thing, and then to charge you so much money to go do it, where you know, someone had to have known
Starting point is 00:31:00 that this is clearly not worth $139. It wasn't worth $9. I would have rather given a donation to the people who were running the exhibit, to the nice people who were there. I would have rather given a donation to their rent than paid anybody for this experience. It was insane. And then on top of that, because they don't have a gift shop that they can go through, they literally, they spent more money on the tent for the merch than they did on the entirety of the dinosaurs. And they're pitching you as you're leaving.
Starting point is 00:31:32 They're like, you want a dinosaur t-shirt and popcorn combo, $79.99? And I'm like, fuck you. Like, what are you thinking? Get me out of here. Can you move a cone so I can leave? I wanted to run over people. I was so mad.
Starting point is 00:31:47 This happens a lot. It does, yeah, where people kind of swoop in and take advantage and make it. And there's a lot of those that are cool. A lot of them are. Well thought out, very interesting. Those Van Gogh ones have been great. And they're so, so you don't know.
Starting point is 00:32:04 You don't. Exactly. The in-person experiences are what it's all about. Disney and Universal have known this for years. The experiential stuff, right? And it's a hot commodity. It's a buzzword in the amusement industry. It's what everyone's trying to do and do well, but there's only a few that really do it well.
Starting point is 00:32:23 And you just take chances on the other ones. We went to the slime exhibit, and that slime, mine as well, have been a breeding ground for fucking smallpox, I swear to God. But okay, the kids played with the slime for a few minutes, they got to make their own slime, and that was interesting enough to call it a wash. It wasn't, I didn't think it was worth the money
Starting point is 00:32:44 that I paid, but at least the kids got an hour and a half of activities. And when we were leaving, there were free shake shack milkshakes and Chick-fil-A sandwiches. So I was like, okay. You know that you fucked up with this exhibit. So at least you fed us on the way out the door. Somebody, some manager said, we're gonna piss off parents
Starting point is 00:33:04 if we don't feed them something at the end and give them some free milkshakes. Because it, okay, so I get it, you know, you can't always hit it out of the park and some kids are going to like some things and some kids are not going to like other things. And people in general, they're going to be interested or not interested. But this is ridiculous. This is again the highway robbery of the average consumer who thinks they're going to get one thing and then they get another because you see all these Instagram ads and it makes it seem like bubble. Oh yeah the Instagram ads really sell it. They do. Bubble world is gonna be fantastic. So many bubbles. Your kid's gonna float away
Starting point is 00:33:35 in a bubble. The man who invented bubbles is going to be there showing you how to make new bubbles that your kid can roll around in all day long. I mean it's bubble world. What else could you want? Or unicorn world. Or here, you know, be a mermaid for a day. Like there's so many of these experiences that go on there. But I just don't bite very often anymore because I know, I know.
Starting point is 00:33:56 There are certain companies that do this well. And if you're not one of those companies, then I'm like, nope, not even gonna take a chance on this. Because I'm not gonna be $59.99 per head to then get in there. And there's some poor lady who's getting paid $6 an hour to sit in a mermaid tail all day long and blow bubbles in your face.
Starting point is 00:34:14 It's fucking ridiculous. It's like, I don't know. And I know that you don't have small children, but those who do have small children, we'll totally understand this. I have small nephews. You do have small nephews That's true. Yes, we're struggling to find something to do for them. Of course
Starting point is 00:34:29 Yeah, they are little creatures in the summer. Yeah, they're insatiable Well, that's why I just throw them in the pool and you call it a day learn how to swim Learn to swim. That's what my dad did. He said here. Let's go to the lake You know, I'll almost chop your leg off with the boat motor and then I'll throw you in and you can learn how to swim. Oh, we're out of gas. Can you please pull it back to dock? There's a life jacket.
Starting point is 00:34:53 There's a life jacket. He didn't even give us a life jacket. He just gave us a rope tied to the front of the boat. I'd say that my dad's version of an in-person experience was to get stuck in the middle of a lake with no gas. And then he told Kevin and I, he tied a rope to the front of the boat, this 22 foot ski boat. And he was like, all right, we're going to have to pull it back to dock.
Starting point is 00:35:13 I mean some manpower. Get in there boys. Yes. And so Kevin and I were riding a horse. He was driving as if Kevin and I could have enough power to make him driving matter one bit. He was like, okay, a little bit to the right boys. And then he turned the wheel and I'd be like, what are you doing? Just leave it straight, leave it neutral.
Starting point is 00:35:36 Let us go. What are you doing? I love you dad. But we did pull that back to dock. Took two and a half hours. But we got it back to dock. And like people would stop and they'd be like, hey, how you want to tuck back to the gas station?
Starting point is 00:35:47 And my dad would be like, no, we got it, the boys are doing fine. Meanwhile, poor Kevin's like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I kept taking a break. Go get help. Oh, my God. This is a constant struggle as a human being, but then as a parent more so as a constant
Starting point is 00:36:06 struggle to occupy our minds with something that's interesting and new and makes life a little bit more exciting. We all depend on these new experiences to give our brain that little lift that it needs. Oh, the births of Saratown. Yeah, there's only so many my 600 pound life that I can watch before I go, okay, Brian, you're getting a little too great. There's only so many My 600lb. Lifes that I can watch before I go, okay, Brian, you're getting a little too great. There's only so many episodes, only so many times I can watch the same catfish episode
Starting point is 00:36:30 over and over and over again. Or I can pour it. Thank you about the dinosaur exhibit and COVID stuff, which, oh my gosh, just thinking back on some of those early days of COVID. I mean, it's actually been four years, I read something there that it's been four years exactly since the lockdown.
Starting point is 00:36:47 Oh, yeah, Mark, first week of March. Lockdown started happening. Well, happy four year anniversary, by the way, because we put on our first episode the week before the lockdown. Yeah. Yeah, well, yeah. That's right.
Starting point is 00:36:58 So it makes me think though, and I flashed in my head, I remember going to a concert, quote unquote, you had to buy, like you had a square. Square. Yes, you had to stay in your little square. I mean, looking back on it, it's like, I don't think that was help preventing anything.
Starting point is 00:37:16 No, I think that, yeah. I think quite a few lessons have been learned. But again, I do have to say this, like we knew what we knew at the time. Right. No, everything was new. Corn cob, Santa. Corn cob, deacob, Santa. That's right. I went to the Santa place and that motherfucker wasn't wearing anything. He had a mask on until the kids got up. They took it off and I'm like, what are you doing? I thought we were supposed to be wearing masks here. Oh my God, all the masks. Come on down, there's a COVID Christmas casual. We got COVID for days. Due to COVID we cannot find a Santa Claus. So we
Starting point is 00:37:54 have half scaricrow half human buck. Buck the friendly Santa Claus. He weighs 89 pounds. Stop and wet. He's got a corn cob pipe for a nose. A marble eyeball that falls out on occasion. But don't be scared, it's COVID. Everybody was just making do. We're all like, what? Okay. That was a weird year, man. That was a weird two years. It really was. Yeah, the things we did and we thought. And I mean, listen, everything in hindsight is 2020, obviously we all, now we're all geniuses about the whole fucking thing.
Starting point is 00:38:31 And, but back then we were scared and. Yeah, it was very new. We didn't know what was going to happen. Yeah. And Astrid was pregnant through the entire thing. So it was like, yeah. So we took no chances because of course not. That's not what you wanted to do, especially at the beginning of the pandemic,
Starting point is 00:38:46 when pregnant women were being affected in certain ways and we were just scared out of our minds at any moment the whole world could come crashing down. So we really did pay pretty close attention to the lockdowns. I mean, we weren't like 100% locked down. I went to the store because I had to go out of the fucking house at some point. But, you know, and that's why these things,
Starting point is 00:39:04 like going to the dinosaur exhibit, seemed so exciting to us at the time because, okay, we can go out of the fucking house at some point. But, you know, and that's why these things, like going to the dinosaur exhibit, seemed so exciting to us at the time, because, okay, we can go out. We can get out. Yeah, we can do something different. Yeah, we can do something different. And, you know. There's a lot of stuff in cars, I remember.
Starting point is 00:39:15 There were a lot of stuff in cars, that's right. Remember Dave Chappelle was doing the, he like met this farmer in Omaha or something, and he was doing those huge shows to people. Like hundreds and hundreds of cars and they were doing live comedy in front of it and he had all his buddies up there. And you know, everybody made do.
Starting point is 00:39:32 We did the best that we can with the information that we had. I think anyway. Drive-in movies made a huge resurgence. Yeah, where did those go? Clubhouse, what was that? What was that? Clubhouse, what's that? Yeah, meanwhile everybody, while everybody's stuck inside too, and that's where all these little things started popping up to you online.
Starting point is 00:39:50 Yeah, and it all, it was a thing. Yeah, everybody started a podcast. Everybody started a podcast, only a few of us, stupidly. Everybody started a podcast and a sourdough starter. Yeah, that's true. Everyone got into bread making. And if the world was coming crashing down, at least we'd be able to make bread.
Starting point is 00:40:10 Where we get the ingredients, I don't know, but at least we'll know how to make bread. With our bread machine that does it for us. Tha-ka-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da garbage can really literally. Oh. Yeah, well the girl I was dating, she brought it home, somebody was throwing it away and she brought it home and she's like, I'll just clean it out and make bread. And to be honest, there were a couple loves of bread that were very delicious. Nice. Delicious, delicious.
Starting point is 00:40:33 Delicious. Delicious. Delicious. Delicious. So COVID is where I lost all my ability to speak. I had that long COVID for a while. You go back and listen to some episodes, I'm like,
Starting point is 00:40:46 I think that's long COVID. I do. The long COVID is a real thing. Yeah. I think there's still some people that are suffering with it. There's still a lot of stuff we don't know about everything that happened, but thank goodness we're on the other side.
Starting point is 00:41:00 Now we're just into the pit of hell of political stuff. Oh my God. Yeah. After we get out of COVID. I'm at Raging. Oh my God, yeah. After we get out of COVID. And then raging wildfires. Raging wildfires. After we get out of COVID, war in the Middle East, war in Ukraine, another election year that's just sure to be a total fucking shit show. And thank God you got the commercial break. That's right. Because here you will hear none of it, except for the last 15 minutes
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Starting point is 00:42:16 You know, I saw the most interesting, like, you know, like people are putting the, there's a lot of like alternative sports now, right? I told you, I think I, one time I watched like out, I was driving and I was listening to hours and hours of cornhole tournaments. You know, the guys with like the big beers
Starting point is 00:42:35 and the big bellies and they're drinking and they're throwing cornholes and like a hundred thousand dollars prize for this. And I just couldn't believe it. Keepy Upi, the balloon game is now like a whole tournament. You can do that. The guy, we almost had him on, but then I thought, why are you gonna have this guy on? The soccer golf, remember the soccer golf guy I showed you that one time?
Starting point is 00:42:56 There's a guy who started a league, an actual sport where he took an oversized soccer ball that's inflated and has a lot of bounciness to it, I guess. And he was playing on shortened actual golf courses with very oversized holes. And he had a whole thing going on. He had like a tournament going on. I saw on Instagram something that I thought was crazy.
Starting point is 00:43:19 And I don't think this is a real sport, but I think it could be because someone's gonna take this. Barefoot soccer on Legos. Barefoot soccer on Legos. Legos. Let me take a minute to process that. Legos thrown all over the soccer field. And then you play barefoot soccer with the Legos. But with the Legos. With the Legos.
Starting point is 00:43:40 Now, speaking of being a parent, if you're a parent, Legos are the bane of your existence because they are the most fun and most interesting thing a lot of times for kids to do. Some kids really get into Legos, building stuff, and following the instructions. Yeah, one of my kids does, he just loves it, he loves it. And I like sitting there and building it with him.
Starting point is 00:43:58 Of course, they'll destroy it three seconds later, but okay, you know, whatever. But the Legos, they go everywhere, especially as the kids get older and you get more intricate Legos. But the Legos, they go everywhere, especially as the kids get older and you get more intricate Legos, the smaller Legos. They go everywhere, your smaller children put them down their throats and their nose and their ears and their wherever,
Starting point is 00:44:14 any hole that they have. And then you step on them in the middle of the night often because they'll leave Legos on the ground and you step on them. It fucking hurts, man. That fucking hurts. And these guys were playing soccer, full on soccer, barefoot on a field full of random Legos.
Starting point is 00:44:34 I can't imagine why you would think that that would be fun to do. I don't know, Chrissy, because people are just making shit up at this point, hoping they hit it rich. They see those Saudi Arabians getting involved in professional golf and giving $100,000 prizes for Kipey fucking Uppie, the balloon game, Kipey fucking Uppie.
Starting point is 00:44:52 Which by the way, I do have to admit, was pretty fucking interesting when I watched it. These guys were running all over. They put a fake living room together in this four-sided glass wall, and then they had cameras all around the room, the fake living room, and they had like a couch and chairs and you know, Ottomans and all the television stand and then these guys had to keep up the balloon.
Starting point is 00:45:15 You hit it once, the other person has to get it, you try and get it, you know, try and hit it out of the way so that the other guy can't get it before it falls on the floor and it can touch the couch but not the floor. And when I walked, I thought this is the most silly bullshit that you're giving a hundred thousand dollars away for and then I watched it and I was like yeah that's actually that's actually pretty interesting I actually like that I think that's more of a sport than some other stuff I do yeah and you know then I watched these I was watching these guys in Canada and they were playing a game I
Starting point is 00:45:43 can't remember the name of it, but imagine a circle, okay? And then imagine you have checkers. So there's four people around the circular table, and it's a board that's got some sawdust on it, like sand on it. It's kind of like that game, the sawdust game, where you throw that puck down there, and you see it at some bars.
Starting point is 00:45:59 Oh yeah, what is that? I don't know, I haven't played it. I've played it a million times. Pigo, Pigan. I've played it. No, I think that's a card game actually. Thumbnails or something. Shuffleboard. Shuffleboard.
Starting point is 00:46:10 But it's not shuffle. It's like a mini shuffleboard where you throw the little puck down there and try to get it into a, you could knock people out and play defense and offense. Well these guys are hitting these little checkers that are like heavy checkers. They're like flicking them. Like you would with the, you know, the paper footballs back when you were a kid. They're flicking them to try and get them in this hole in the middle.
Starting point is 00:46:30 And then there's these pegs around there that you can use to block and defend and you know, bounce off of. And they had a live tournament on YouTube. And there, I think it was on YouTube. And there was like 7,000 people watching this. And this is up in Canada, right? And it's an actual game that they're playing where four guys sit around
Starting point is 00:46:49 There's a team two and two they sit opposite each other and they flick these little checkers down into the middle and there's like I don't know 60 p 60 tables of people playing this so it's like a big tournament There's money involved in this there's money involved in this. There's money involved in everything. We are... Except our show. Well, if the tournament wants to sponsor our show, I'll be happy to let it run in the background. I'll be happy to put on a full broadcast on my RSS feed if you just sponsor the show. And I'm serious. Think about it.
Starting point is 00:47:21 Fuck around and find out. But let me continue. Serious, they got fuck around and find out But but let me continue there's professional speed puzzling have you seen this one Speed puzzling. I do like to puzzle speed puzzling. Yeah, there's professional Rubik's Cube No professional cup flipping you might you seen the kids do the cup flipping that They build a cup tower and then they bring it back down in a certain amount of time Unbelievable, unbelievable all these games that these these people are coming up with We when we were kids we did this because we just that were bored and we didn't have the internet We just needed time we would play that you know paper football all the time now paper football is a sport
Starting point is 00:47:57 And there are people betting on who's gonna win the paper you can bet on anything. I watched the most win the paper football. Well, you can bet on anything. I watched the most sad 60 minutes. I mean, not the most. I watched a very sad 60 minutes. I'm trying to get away from being so pejorative about everything. It's the worst one.
Starting point is 00:48:14 It's the worst. It's the best. It's the most. It's the forgiveness, whatever. I watched a very sad 60 minutes, right before the fucking Super Bowl, where they were talking about how big of an issue, how big of an industry, and then how big of an issue gambling has become, but not for everyone,
Starting point is 00:48:33 for a certain subset of people living in the United States, and that is young men, right, in their 20s and early 30s. And they interviewed a bunch of people that were in that age range and there was a couple of them who had a real Gambling problem. They had lost everything. They were so addicted to it They were betting on whether or not, you know, the referee would wear black shoes or white They were just betting on the most ridiculous things because now it's all available to you at your fingertips Yes gambling is so prevalent at your fingertips. Gambling is so prevalent, prevalent, however you say it, in our society today that Disney has now partnered, ESPN has partnered, with a gambling company so that you can have
Starting point is 00:49:14 live action on the TV so that you can make those bets across the Disney platform because it's just a thing now, like there's no more shame in that. And there are very few states, I think, upon which online or gambling is completely illegal. Most states have lotteries. Yeah, people love to gamble. They always have. I mean, yeah, I remember going to different states where, yeah, it was, oh my God, they've got a casino. I know. I used to get so excited about it. Yeah, now it's, you used to go to Vegas because Vegas was the place where a lot of things were legal that were illegal, Sin City for a reason because everybody thought that gambling was a sin and you know, nude
Starting point is 00:49:53 dancing was a sin, prostitution was a sin. Riverlake tried to rebrand as a family town. Yeah, they did. Right after the what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas campaign that was incredibly successful, by the way. way yeah but that was totally geared toward adults you're gonna go you're gonna party you're gonna do blow and hookers and you know you're just gonna be crazy and then you're gonna go to work on Monday morning everything's fine and I actually did that whole I was a real live advertising campaign for them on a couple weekends and I'm telling you what it hurt
Starting point is 00:50:30 But I never quite got into the gambling. No, I haven't gotten into the gambling either No, I would come with 300 bucks and that would be it then and you know, I figured out But now almost every state has some version of gambling or a casino even Atlanta on multiple occasions has come very close to on multiple occasions has come very close to approving having casinos inside the city limits. And as a matter of fact, there's a brand new Hard Rock Cafe hotel, Hard Rock Hotel here, and they built that hotel because they believe that there will be a casino down very soon, and they want to be one of the first ones in on it, right? Smart move on Hard Rock's part. But it's just like the gamification of everything that we do. I think we were talking about this.
Starting point is 00:51:09 The gamification of everything that we do in our society. We should have more games on the show. I would love to play games, but you know, some of them are like visual mediums, and that's really hard to do. And then we did play a couple of games one time. Didn't we play, what was the fun game that we played? Yeah, games one time didn't we play what was the fun game that we played yeah no that one was fun it was the factor crap factor crap yeah that was fun we should play a factor again yeah that's one of the
Starting point is 00:51:34 things that I always think about doing and then I never like actually go out and execute it because you also have to remember I'm gonna write it down in the this is a podcast so we have to do it so that people actually are interested in listening to it which is harder than you might think actually the and so are no audience numbers that very few sponsors but a we're trying and that's all that really matters but these these games that these people are coming up with and then they become like i wouldn't say big sports but they come in actual
Starting point is 00:52:04 sport with actual sponsors and then people are paying these with, and then they become like, I wouldn't say big sports, but they become an actual sport with actual sponsors, and then people are paying these, the players of these sports to compete is amazing. And it made me believe that we should think of a TCB sport, a sport where we can have a tournament, do a thing, get it sponsored, and actually pay the winners, which we will rig ourselves to make sure we are the winners. But I want you to put some brain power to this.
Starting point is 00:52:31 There's gotta be a couple things that work out at Chrissy. What if we played a game where we get a bunch of people together and the two, like a team of two, and the two people who can talk the longest saying the least amount of truth wins so the less amount of facts that you have the more money that you win and I think you and I would be spectacular at that all we have to do is just rerun any episode of the commercial yeah that's exactly right who had the most kids during the pandemic?
Starting point is 00:53:05 I would. You did. Yes, yeah. I think we need to get back to factor crap, though. It was a good one, and it spawned some good, um, thoughtful... Thoughtful? ...thoughtful things that we talked about. Like whale dicks.
Starting point is 00:53:22 Pizzles. Pizzles. Pizzles. Remember that? That was not factor crap. That was a fantasy. Did you see us on the news this morning that they out in Hawaii, they observed two males, two male whales. Having sex? Yes, one's Pizzle was out. One's Pizzle was out trying to penetrate the other Pizzle, almost sexuality happens pretty frequently in nature. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:53:47 It's not an unusual thing to happen. Maybe you think of Pizzle though. Yeah, that's why I get crazed when people are like, it's not, you're not booing with it. Well, maybe not in 100% of the cases, but I'm pretty sure that most cases, like, it's just natural. That's just the way it happens. And no one should be surprised by that or offended by that.
Starting point is 00:54:02 That's completely ridiculous conversation. Because if whales are humping's completely ridiculous conversation because if whales are humping each other, if humpback whales are humping each other with their own pistols, then like, you know, what are they making a conscious decision to hump each other? No, they're attracted to other, uh, pistols. Like when I got, I got a pistol, I'm attracted to another. It's perfectly normal. Exactly. Yes. We should have a pistol eating contest. That's what we should do. Did we start talking about
Starting point is 00:54:26 Pizzles because of Moby Dick? Like there was this passage in Moby Dick or something. Maybe. But I think it had to do actually with maybe, maybe. That was early days. I felt like I was reading some like
Starting point is 00:54:41 fantasy porn and. That came later. Yeah. Oh, that came later. Okay. And the girl wanted to have her be penetrated by the Pizzle. porn and that came later. Yeah. Oh that came later Okay, and the girl wanted to have her be penetrated by the pistol later. Oh it was yeah Maybe Moby Dick had it is his pistol and Moby dick answer that question two one two four three three TCV Ask me. We do trivia. We do trivia. We should do what is the name of a whale dick? Yeah Is it Pizzle or is it puzzle? I don't know we can speed piddling i've only been speedpizzle the penetrating a little bit of penetrating
Starting point is 00:55:14 uh... if yet so this leads me all to the conclusion that if you would like to play a game here on air with us dcb yes let's get the audience to one two12-433-3TCB. Tell me you want to play a game, because we're going to play a few of them coming up here in Q2. They call it Q2 Kids in the business world. Q2. We're going to do it in Q2. What's our revenue projections for Q2? What is that revenue projection?
Starting point is 00:55:40 I don't know, Zero. 212-433-3TCB. Tell us you want to play a game four three three tcb tell us you want to play a game of us and we will bring you on air to play a game we did this once with some audience and but because of the insane inability to put anything technical together it ended up selling like this uh...
Starting point is 00:56:04 and we couldn't run it yet we've upgraded since then so maybe we can make it work upgraded updated We're all yeah, we had a professional come in here Actually help us I had to have a professional hang a camera for me. That's how dumb I am How dumb I am? All right Tcb podcast calm that's where you go you all the show notes, find out more about the show, all the audio, all the video, right there from one location, tcbpodcast.com.
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Starting point is 00:57:33 All right, Chrissy, I guess that's all I can do for today I think so but know that I love you. I love you and best you best you out there in the podcast universe until next time Chrissy and I do say we will say and we must say good bye Oh, hell yeah!

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