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Episode Date: December 26, 2024

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I'm missing my co-host because I believe she will never return after the 26 days of TCB. But in the low light of the post-Christmas glow, we must forge on, my friends. We must forge on. friends we must forge on you didn't ask for it but I don't care gonna put out an episode on this Thursday anyway and while I sit here recording on actual Christmas Day I know tomorrow I will be full of blaze in the post-holiday depression that's sure to overtake us all so while the ladies take some well-deserved time off, I'm going to try and cheer you up with a few interviews we recorded but haven't gotten to, because for some incredibly dumb

reason I decided to put out 25 episodes in the month of December. But just a few weeks back, before all of the high drama around 12 Days of TCB, Chrissy and I did get an opportunity to sit with the lovely Poppy Liao. Poppy is stealing scenes in Hacks. She's currently on the Netflix holiday special No Good Deed. She starred in Dead Ringers, The After Party, Space Cadet, and Mercy Mistress. She's a Peabody Award winner. She's known for her sitcoms like Sunnyside, Hacks, and Ike Harley.

And she's always making things interesting on her Instagram, at Poppy Republic. I'll put it all in the show notes, but let's not dwaddle today. Let's get right to it. I know you've got batteries to buy and things to return, so we'll make this quick and easy and hopefully put a smile on your face as we talk to Poppy Leal. The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now. Poppy is here Break starts now. Poppy is here with us now. Thank you, Poppy, for joining us. We really appreciate it.

Hi, thanks for having me. We're so glad that you're here. And just as we were coming on to record, we learned that Poppy is just a few short miles away from us and here in the Atlanta studio. Had we known this, we would have brought you in because you just look lovely today. I can basically see into your window.

Yes. Basically, I'm outside your studio. Listen, you would have come on here and you would have outshone the entirety of this studio because you look lovely, Poppy. That's very nice. Thank you. Well, I do feel like I should let your listeners know that I look like a full tradwife right now.

Just so you have a visual, behind this voice is a tradwife. Yeah, I look like I'm going to sell you a toaster oven or like a- I would buy it. A toaster oven or you're going to make me deviled eggs when I come home in my three piece suit for my job at the ad agency. 100%. Or are we both models and we're both coming from our joint modeling jobs, called Kofnara Smith, Lucky Blue Smith. I know that I'm really deep in that lore. I say this as someone who doesn't have any trad skills. I really can't cook. I have a child too, and I thought after I had my child,

I would like learn how to cook like some maternal instinct for cooking would kick in. And it hasn't. It just doesn't happen. How old is your child? I mean, I read that you had a baby. Almost two. Almost two. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Love of my life. Yeah, of course. I have a number of them also. We joke that I have 12 to 13.

We don't know how many. Yeah, we don't know how many. Either to the listeners, but at two years old, I thought also for some reason, I thought I would also gain some cooking skills once I had kids. I'm like, well, now I really have to learn how to cook something besides microwave pizza.

Milk and cereal. But I have learned nothing in the many years that I've now had children. I've learned nothing, I can't do it. I don't have the je ne sais quoi, for you know, like I feel like you just need, some people don't have it. And I really don't.

And that's okay, you've got other skills. You've got other skills. So who does the cooking? How does the child get fed exactly? Amazing question. Yeah. I don't know. I do have an amazing nanny and she feeds both my child and me.

Me, definitely. So thank you. Thank you to Des. We love Des. Aw. Wait, actually that's funny though. Me and my friends were just talking about like what all of our skills would be in the apocalypse, like what we would contribute to the commune.

Oh, that's a good question. I really spent a long time trying to think what my contribution is. I really, really struggled. I think most honestly, the thing that I bring is vibes. I really think I can bring some solid vibes. And also I was like, I guess I could start a thespian society. Yes, yes. Which the apocalypse needs.

Yes, for sure. And laughter. I think I would. I do love a hee-hee and a ha-ha. You know what? This is a great question. So you're stuck in a bunker. The apocalypse has happened.

It's you and like 50 other folks, right? 50? Too many. Too apocalypse has happened. It's you and like 50 other folks, right? 50? Too many in the bunker. Too many? Okay, okay. It's you and 10 other folks, right? 10's right. Okay, it's you and 10 of your best friends, your nanny, right?

And you're all in there and everybody's going to need a lane. You're going to need a lane and somebody's going to have to be cooking. Someone's going to need to be MacGyver and fix shit and turn on the electricity and all that. Someone's going to be, you gonna be the quiet introspective one who's thinking of a way to get us out of here. And then you're definitely gonna need a vibe human, like a vibe chick or a vibe guy,

who's gonna wake up every morning and give our mind, tickle the insides of our brains, so to speak, with some positivity. That is just as important as, maybe not cooking, but it's just as important as the MacGyver guy, I'm sure. I would say right below cooking and like electrician is the vibe guy, which is me. But interesting to say, first thing in the morning, my vibe guy would probably come in around noon to start the vibes.

So the people that wake up in the morning, you don't get the vibes until a couple hours later. I'm with you on that. Are you, I need my cup of coffee before anybody talks to me kind of person? Do you drink caffeine? Definitely. I'm like, I need my coffee and I need my Vyvanse before I talk to anyone. Yeah. Oh, Vyvanse. Yeah. I don't think I've heard that shit is great. I've got friends who just like, they swear by it. They're like, just take a half of Vyvanse in the morning and you'll be twice as effective as you already are. And I'm like, do you see how fast I speak?

I don't need to go any faster. Yes. Well, the thing with Vyvanse is it can, you can accidentally use it for the wrong things. So like I have sort of my productivity window after I take it. And like on a good day, I can really get all my shit done during that window.

On a bad day, I really waste my Vyvan's productivity on like a super animated conversation. And then I'm like, oh God, now it's over. Wait, what would both of your skills be? What would your contribution be to the bunker? I actually love to cook. Chrissy, you are a good cook. That is in.

I love to. You are a good cook. But I- I would like so I would do cooking. Yeah, you are a good cook. Yeah, I love to do it. You are a good cook. But I- I would like to recruit you. Okay, yeah, I love it. I have a full test kitchen. I test out new recipes, some work, some don't, but yeah, I love it.

I will eat them. I think Chrissy would definitely be the chef of the group. If I had to pick a friend that I would bring along with me to the bunker, I'd bring Chrissy, I mean, obviously I'd bring Chrissy would definitely be the chef of the group. If I had to pick a friend that I would bring along with me to the bunker, I'd bring Chrissy, I mean, obviously I'd bring Chrissy. We've been friends forever and then now, 8,000 episodes into this group.

We would be in the bunker together. Yeah, we would be in the bunker together, driving each other crazy, but making each other laugh. Oh no, but you would also do the Bunker Podcast with every Bunker needs. Yes, I'm like you. I think that on, if you catch me in the right moment at some point during the day, I can be the vibe guy.

I also think I always see things, I always see the cup half full. Even when I'm in a bad mood, there's some kind of light I can see. There's something I can see that's good. Yeah, we need that. We would need that. Yeah. And I like to point it out. We do. Like I've been spending the week trying to pull Christy out of a terrible depression.

I've been spending a week trying to pull America out of a terrible depression. I wonder why you're in a terrible depression, Christy. Was there something really apocalyptically terrible that happened? Yeah. I mean, now that you mention it, I can think of something.

Okay, ready? So here it is. We have a conversation yesterday with like a noted pundit commentarian about current events. Like someone you would know. And I'm only not saying his name because I don't want people to get messed up when they hear the order of the which these are put out.

Totally. Showbiz baby. Yeah, showbiz baby. He has this conversation with us and it makes us both feel so much better. He's like, democracy holds, don't worry about it. It'll be tested, but it'll hold. We'll figure it out.

And so we get off and we're like, that's fantastic. We feel great. And the second we open our fucking phones, it's like, oh no, no, it's not gonna hold. It's not holding. It's not holding. It's terrible. I do have a good pre-bed routine in which I doom scroll for at least an hour and then

have incredibly bad anxiety dreams. And that's just a little bit of my evening routine that I love to do. Oh my God, Poppy. It's called sleep hygiene. Yeah, yeah. Cleaning out the good vibes, bringing in the negative ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My therapist said to me once, she said,

and she says it to me actually a lot, but the first time she said it, I wasn't convinced, but now like the 30th time I've heard it, I'm getting more convinced. She says, there needs to be at least two hours of your day when you give yourself a break from all the worrying. She's like, so just tell yourself, this is a worry-free hour of your day when you give yourself a break from all the worrying. She's like, so just tell yourself this is a worry-free hour of the day and just go, you know,

zone out or do whatever. Now that doesn't work all the time. What does that? And it certainly hasn't worked in the last week. How do you do that? Meditation. What does one do? Meditation. Oh!

Kundalini Yoga with Guru Jagat. Totally. Okay, question. Does then, does TikTok black hole count? Yes, of course. It's a way to get the form of zoning out. Zoning out, yeah. Okay, good. But my algorithm is on fleek because I don't really, like my algorithm

is not necessarily political, but because of the topics we have on the commercial break, I tend to scroll into weird areas of the world, right? So I see a guy who's like, let's just say he's talking to, I don't know, he's talking to Emily Radajowski about their marriage and he has two views and one follower, but he's telling Emily through the screen how he's going to cook and clean before she gets home, right? And I'm like, that is amazing. Interesting.

This is a national treasure. I actually wanna know this about everyone is when you like scroll on TikTok for long enough, what is the specific niche that starts showing up on your For You page? Because for me it's North Sea tick-tock North Sea tick-tock. Oh Go ahead like about just it's the most dangerous sea. I

Also have a lot of dangerous sea shit show up Fascinating all of us because I'm scared shitless of it. Are you, what's your for you page? What's your deal? Yeah, so I have on my personal Instagram and on TikTok, I have a lot of dangerous ocean shit, like dangerous ocean conditions, people who put out those videos where they show up. I get so much of that and I love it. I know, like cruise ships tilting sideways and people sliding down the banner. 100% And I'm like, oh, I'm so excited.

I'm like, oh, I'm so excited. I'm like, oh, I'm so excited. I'm like, oh, I'm so excited. I'm like, oh, I'm so excited. I'm like, oh, I'm so excited. I'm like, oh, I'm so excited. I'm like, oh, I'm so excited. I'm like, oh, I'm so excited.

I'm like, oh, I'm so excited. I'm like, oh, I'm so excited. I'm like, oh, I'm so excited. I'm like, oh, I'm so excited. I'm like, oh, I'm so excited. I'm like, oh, I'm so excited. I'm like, oh, I'm so excited. I'm like, oh, I'm so excited. I'm like, oh, I'm so excited. I those videos where they show I get so much of that and I love it. I know, like cruise ships tilting sideways and people sliding down the banister. It's always that sound of those baritone can't really like, intellectually arouse by it. Yeah, there's something that does,

it's definitely a form of doom scrolling, but I know, you know what the other thing, but I know that I'm not going that, like I'm not in that shit. You're not gonna go to the North Sea. Yeah, no. The first time I flew to Switzerland, for some reason we flew over the North Sea. Yeah, no. The first time I flew to Switzerland, for some reason we flew over the

North Sea and it was a terribly like choppy day. And all I remember seeing like through the airplane window were these waves that to me looked a hundred feet high. It was crazy. Yes, I know. And I thought to myself, thank God, no one that I know is doing that. The other thing I tend to end up on is guys and girls that are climbing those fucking construction cranes with not a chain on them. Like just, you know, these like urban climbers? That has never appeared on my page. That's a near fear unlocked, Poppy, go watch.

What are they called, urban climbers? Urban climbers? Scaling the size of the building or they go to construction sites and you know that like You spent time you were you lived in Shanghai, right? Yeah. Okay. So in Shanghai they have it's a terribly crowded city I imagine with lots of buildings or so I see and there's always one construction I know the building that everyone likes to climb in Shanghai. It literally, but they built it in such a way that like, you want to climb it. Yeah.

Like it's basically like ladders sized, like, like footholds, the entire length of the building. They basically, I hate to say it, but that building was kind of asking for it. Yeah. Sounds like it. I would never say that phrase in any other context, but for that building was kind of asking for it. Yeah. Sounds like it. I would never say that phrase in any other context, but for that building, it's saying, try to climb me. Yes. Get to the top.

That building is the apple and the climbers are the eaves. They've got to take a bite out of it. Literally. And I am terrified of heights, terrified of heights. So for me, watching those videos gives me the satisfaction of knowing that I'm getting over my fear by watching someone on a five inch screen do what I want to do. My hands get sweaty, my heart starts to race. And you know, that's really brave of you.

Thank you, Poppy. Pacing your fears, Brian. Yeah. Thank you for being vulnerable and sharing that of you. Thank you, Poppy. Facing your fears, Brian. Yeah. Thank you for being vulnerable and sharing that with us. One TikTok at a time. You know, this show is largely about me being vulnerable to the rest of the world.

Wait, Chrissy, are you on TikTok? Do you do doom scroll? I do not get on TikTok and doom scroll, it's cool. Chrissy's not a social media person. I look at cooking things on TikTok and that's it. And then I close it off. Yeah, I try, I protect my emotions. I'll come in all charged up about something,

whatever the news of the day is, because I've been doom scrolling for days in a row, because it's what we do here. So I just feel it's part of my job to kind of look. 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.

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Do you know about this whole situation? No, I know the song. I don't know why I know the song, but I do. No, you're thinking and just like we did we did to sack Brown sang the song chicken fried We all that brown Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Yes. Yes, that's Zach Brown. That's Zach Brown. But that's Zach Brian is a different guy who I continue to mess up with Zach Brown and he dated this girl Chicken Fry. I'm not gonna get into the whole story. You can read about it.

I will on Instagram. We'll see if she didn't know about it either. I'll send you an article. See, she didn't know about it either. That's right. But okay, Chrissy doesn't know about it because she has good, has a good relationship with technology.

It sounds like- A healthy relationship. I try, yeah. I don't know about it because she has good, has a good relationship with technology. It sounds like- A healthy relationship. I try, yeah. I don't know about it because my TikTok becomes Nate the Hoof Guy instead of that. And then I watch this man clean and shave horse and cow hooves for hours. I've seen it. And do you know about Nate the Hoof Guy? I love him.

I do know about Nate the Hoof Guy. I would actually like to watch that. You know, I am constantly in that fucking thing. I could watch that. You could watch that? He's big. Yeah. I could watch that.

Wait, do you like pimple popping techniques? Oh. No, no, no, no, no, no. I love it. I do. But I don't like to watch it. At a conference, I met the girl. But I do.

I don't want to know you two. You're no longer invited to my bunker. Ah! Well, I get Chrissy in my bunker, so I win. Fair enough. No, yeah, that's true. You never invited me to your bunker, so I guess I'm in my own bunker without pimple popping.

That's actually true. If you're living back, I only invited Chrissy. That's right. I'm still feeling hurt. I'm still feeling hurt. I'm still feeling hurt. Because you and I both don't have skills. We can't have two vibe people. One vibe person is enough.

I feel like two vibe people are just gonna try and out vibe each other and then we'll just hate each other within months. And then the vibe gets bad and we both get kicked out. So I'm actually looking out for us. Oh my God. We gotta be in separate bunkers. Look at her dressing like a Chad wife,

trying to get like a good attention. Look at her in a fucking Chad. Yeah. Like who am, like what is this Marilyn Monroe beat that I have? That's right. I just need everyone to really understand what it is that I look like.

It's so beautiful though. Talking about pimple popping talk. Go to YouTube and check out the video, but you look beautiful. I mean, there's no doubt about it. That's very nice, thank you. I showed up looking lovely. Um, wait, can I segue back to one thing about simple popping talk, which is that now it's all about ingrown hairs.

Oh, an ingrown, a good ingrown hair. It's so satisfying. Oh my God. It's so sad to release it. It's always someone being like me picking my boyfriend's ingrown hairs while he plays video games. I have lost all control. Oh, God, yeah.

And I just go, oh, God, I wish that was me. I just want to get that. Get it in there. Get it. Get it. I love when the hair is, there's a lot of hair in there. Sometimes they get twisted in there and it's real long. Sometimes it's a double hair.

Yes. Sometimes it's really long. Oh my God. Speaking of which, one day on set for Boots' movie, my makeup artist was like, oh my God, Poppy, there's something in your eye. And I felt it too. It's kind of like, it's like a hair or an eyelash or something. She pulls it.

It comes out like five inches. Long. Hair. Long! Hair! Long, yes! How does that happen? I don't know how long it's been in my eye for. It must have been, and then it got me thinking, think about like your eye literally is outside inside.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was like, what stuff has gone to the inside that never came out? Came back out. Because I feel like that hair was in there for a while. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I guess because your eye is constantly washing itself, it probably like a little bit of it got stuck and then it just started sucking it in

while you were sleeping. It's in the brain. It's in the brain. In the brain. Yeah. Something I wanna leave you with. You know, I was at a conference one time and I met a girl, a young lady who worked for

the TLC network for Discovery or HBO Max, whatever the fuck they're calling it these days. And I don't want to talk shit because you might actually have a future with the company streamer where I will never. But so I met her and we were talking, lovely person. And then I said, so what are you working on? And she goes, oh, you know, the show pimple popper. And I was like, I had the same reaction I just had there. I'm like, I go Dr. Pimple Popper.

There's a show on TLC called Dr. Pimple Popper. Oh yeah. I know her. Of course. Yeah. Okay. So I say it's a fucking disgusting show. I can't believe that's on air. What is anybody thinking? Oh my God. She's like, I'm the executive producer. I brought it to air. Well, in open mouth, insert foot. I go, oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to offend you. She goes, this is what she said. And I'm not going to name her name. And there's a couple executive producers, but she goes, I hate it too. She goes, I actually think it's disgusting, but I love the doctor. She's a great personality. And that's why we put it on there is because we knew the personality was going to sell the show. Yeah, she does. I've seen a few

seconds. Okay. I will say I really don't like it when it's too big and it's too juicy. Yeah. No. Like when it's really pus filled, I don't like it. Brian's like about to puke. I know. I really am. Your bunk is really squished tight right now. But I don't like that. No. So I, you know, I do have standards. Yes, that's right. You know, I think every woman

that I've ever had a relationship with is into this. And I'm wondering if it's like, I don't know, maybe it's just the kind of people I attract into my life are pimple popping kind of people. 100%. I wanted to do it. So it's actually, I think you know, maybe it's just the kind of people I attract into my life are pimple popping kind of people. 100%. I wanted to do that. I think you should reflect on yourself, Brian. It sounds like this is actually a you thing.

Listen. You're the one attracting them in, so what's going on with you? I do know something about myself. I'm the problem. That I'm convinced of. No matter what the relationship is, I'm the problem. As a matter of fact, that's what I said to my wife when I asked her to marry me. I said, I'm just going to let you know I'm the problem.

I am the problem. I said, correct, and I do. I have to tell you this. I got to talk to you about one thing. You said in an interview, and I don't know where I saw this, but a couple days ago, I saw that you shared that you would not want to go to space You would never go to space. It's not a thing that you're now I am so with you

He's like you are on my team and you are invited to my bunker if you choose to leave Chrissy's bunker and come over to My bunker you're welcome to come to my bunker because one way we will not Ejected into space I have no interest in this. No, I don't like being spun around. I have a very specific contact lens that I need to wear, otherwise I'm blind. Okay. I have a minimum five-step skincare routine.

Oh yeah. I basically sleep plugged into the wall in like a heated vest that I wear. Oh, you wear a weight blanket with heat? It's not a weight one, but it's like a heated, it kind of buckles up here and there's like a strap around the waist and it's all along your back and your neck and it heats up. Oh, a little cozy. Yes. I love that. A little cozy thingy. So I have so many little thingies that I really like

that I don't think I could do in space. I don't think I would even make it out there because the like dizziness getting, I would think I would just like, my body would just be like, bye. No. We're talking about this the other day. We're like, it seems terribly,

like the space travel available to regular human beings that are not trained astronauts right now and even the ones that are trained seems terribly boring and awful technical and not interesting like you go up you come down It's there's it's very minimalist. There's nothing there to entertain you or make you and they've even a couch you can sit on It's like even a college like you're gonna be strapped to the walls. Yeah, gravity stuff Yes, I'm like I get it amazing views, but just go to a fucking IMAX theater. Right. Yeah. A planetarium.

I am with you. A planetarium! Uh-huh. When I think of space travel, if and when, when I think of space travel, like, Chrissy and I were talking about, I think of like a big ship, like a cruise ship, like, oh, Icon of the Seas out in space where I can go to, you know, three different coffee shops and 12 different bars and then I can go, you know, on a wave pool if I choose to. That's the kind of space travel I'm looking forward to.

And when that happens, probably not in my lifetime, when that happens, I might, might consider it, but space scares the shit out of me. But then if you think about all of the cool stuff that you just named, you could also do on Earth. So like, you're just up there with like vertigo potentially, doing the same stuff, doing your favorite earth things, but like with vertigo. Like ours, if you know.

For sure. Hey, you have been in some iconic television shows, but I do have to say. Oh, thank you. Well, you took a wonderful turn. Name them all now, alphabetical order. Better Call Saul, iCarly. You want me to go on? And I'm not even looking at any notes. You want me to go on? Wait, that's actually, yeah, you actually came in real strong. Better Call Saul is kind of a deep cut too.

What's that? Better Call Saul is kind of a deep cut. I watched every episode three times and yours I watched four. I just had to. Wait, you watched all of Better Call Saul from start to finish three times? Twice, yeah. Wow. I loved the Breaking Bad Better Call Saul saga. I just really did.

And in some ways, I thought Better Call Saul was just a little bit better than Breaking Bad. No knock on Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul. They did a great job. But there is something about better, there's something about the storyline in Better Call Saul that I felt was just a little bit more juicy and tangible and interesting. The love story between Saul and, and what was her name? Reba? Yeah. We love, we love drug stuff. Drug stuff is always- Oh yeah.

It's always interesting. Yeah, Better Call Saul to You is like Narcos to me. Oh, I love Narcos. I love Narcos. I know. My wife and I love Narcos. It's so good. She's from Venezuela, so sometimes,

and we speak Spanish and understand it, so we will like, it's, Narcos is a fantastic fucking show. I know, I want more. It's amazing. So do you watch it's, Narcos is a fantastic fucking show. I know, I want more. It's amazing. So do you watch all of the Narcos? Like, or just the ones that-

I watch all of them, yes. You watch all of them. Yeah. Just an incredible show. Incredible. So- A deep dive. Like, I felt like a parasocial relationship

with like, Pablo Escobar. Yes. Pablo is incredible. Very! There's something to be said. Listen, I think it was Pablo who said, I am just a vessel for getting people what they want. We're on a first name basis. Then me and Pablo.

Me and Escobar. Me and Pablo Escobar. Me and P.E. He said that if there was no Americans, then Pablo Escobar wouldn't exist in the form that he did when he was the Padre, right? And the truth is that he was just a really good entrepreneur who had great organizational skills that included an HR department that would fire at people's heads with a shotgun if you didn't do the things that were right.

And murderous tendencies. And murderous tendencies. And murderous tendencies. That's all it takes. All, murderous tendencies. All billionaires have murderous tendencies. 100%, you physically can't become a billionaire without murder. Murdering people. Yeah. Murdering people.

It's not possible. Yeah. And I like, okay, I heard someone just really put it into perspective and I'm actually gonna really butcher the actual math of it, but you get the idea. We do that here all the time. Oh yeah, don't worry about it. Yeah. Okay.

Amazing. Facts don't matter on this podcast. But someone was like, a million seconds is like 11 days. Okay. Or 11 minutes. A million seconds is 11 minutes. 11 minutes is 11 days. Okay. Or 11 minutes. A million seconds is 11 minutes. 11 minutes is 11 days.

Okay. But a billion seconds is like 36 years. Wow. That's a big difference. It's a huge difference. Right? Yeah. So to become a billionaire, you're fucking up.

Stratosphere. You're fucking people up. Stratosphere. You have to. You have to. Yeah, you have to. You have to. You have to. Yeah, you have to. Let me share. Well, we just talked about this in the intro

to this particular show, which you didn't hear. Disney just released that they are going to spend $25 billion on content in 2025. $25 billion on producing content in 2025. Netflix is gonna spend $17 billion. Netflix, who you're working for, is gonna spend $17 billion on content production. $43 million just between the two streamers.

That's an insane amount of money. A million of it is Poppy's glam. Oh yeah, a million of it is Tradwife glam. Just for today, and that's just for today. Think about that. Poppy's glam. Millionaire is trad wife glam. Just for today. And that's just for today. Think about that. Think about that. That's... That's way too much content.

It's a lot. They're my employers. I'm like cut it out. Meanwhile, she's running around Atlanta doing 14 different movies. by Netflix. It's true. And I'm like, for what?

And I'm like, yes, I'm sending my child to college. But that blows my mind. I actually think this, how every week there's a new sort of hot thing that happens. I saw this on TikTok. I saw one of those time time-lapse graphs of like starting from the early 90s or maybe even the 80s what like the hottest, the most watched shows were every month. Okay. From then until now. And it's like you can see in the 90s there's like, you know, like friends really like kind of like had a stronghold and it was like the top show for a

really long time and like kind of Grey's Anatomy came up and it was up there and like you know like Bubba you saw this and then as we get into sort of the streaming era the graph starts going crazy every week it's a different thing it becomes like like and you're like oh god we're just there's just so much stuff to watch I have 15 different shows that I'm watching currently, and then I have 20 shows that I still haven't finished. They forgot about, yeah. Or the season, the second season of something comes out and I'm like, oh yeah, two years later. I loved that show.

Now what happened, because I've watched so much stuff in between that I can't remember what happened. Yes, there's so much stuff to watch. I remember books. They exist too. There's gonna be a plug-down. What's that? Oh no.

You know, it's, when I, like 10 years ago, a friend said to me, he said, our children will never watch a commercial if they don't want to. And I thought that was crazy talk. I was like, oh, commercials are what makes the world go round advertising. But it's so true. They'll see it in some other format. But this, the streamers have broken the model. They have disrupted it, and now it's just a crazy hodgepodge.

It's an embarrassment of riches, quite frankly. There are so many great shows. I mean, it's good for Poppy. So many great shows. Because Poppy gets work, right? Works in showbiz, if you will. Yes. $43 billion, Poppy, if in 2025,

you just make one half of one 10th of 1% of their overall budgets, you are gonna be living the high life in the hog. No problem. I mean, it probably won't be me. It'll probably be like the Disney exec that's making that. Well, that's true. Well, the Disney exec's making 1% of 45.

It will trick triple down. Yeah. And I will be able to, you know, put my kid through school. I don't think you're going to have a problem. That'll be amazing. And keep raising my chickens. Are you having chickens? I have chickens.

Oh, I love chickens. I have three chickens, but my best friend just told me that for Christmas, he's getting me three more chickens and he's going to get me, it is actually one of the nicest things, one of the nicest, most thought out presents I've ever gotten. But do you know about silky chickens? No. Oh my God. Okay.

Look them up and then like maybe like add a image of them. If this is going to also be a good place. Right here. Silky chickens. They're gorgeous. They're little pom-poms as chickens. Oh, I know what you're talking about. They're incredibly hot. And so like, you can't, once they become like an adult or even teenager, you basically can't get them.

Oh my God. I know, right? That's fucking adorable. That's adorable. My best friend is gonna drive two and a half hours out of LA to go to a silky chicken farm and to get three silky chicks. And it's a bit of a gamble because you can't tell like the sex of the chicken until they get a little older.

And I don't really want roosters because they're gonna impregnate on my hands and then I'm gonna have 1,000 chickens. You're gonna have a million chickens. A million. But again, you can't tell. And once they are adult, they're just snapped up.nate on my hens and then I'm going to have 1,000 chickens. You're going to have a million chickens. A million. But again, you can't tell. And once they are adult, they're just snapped up. You can't even get them.

So they're like statistically, if we got three baby chicks, at least one or two of them will be hens. Yes. And we just have to take the gamble. So I'm getting three silky chickens. Oh my God. One or two or three of which may be a rooster. And I might have...

Breed them. Yeah, totally. I have a lot of time to do that. And then, when we get to the bunker, we'll have food and company. Oh my God, that is my contribution. My contribution is eggs. Eggs. You bring eggs. You bring your silky chickens and their sil is eggs. Eggs. That's right. You bring eggs. Oh my God. You bring your silky chickens and their silky eggs. Yes, because I come with chickens.

I also come with a toddler and so that's that, but you know. Yes. The new race will begin. The new race will begin. You will have a silky chicken. The new race? But I'm going to have, and they all give me, at least they give like one egg a day. Oh. I get a lot of eggs.

Well, one egg a day. Listen to me. I can do a lot with that. I can do a lot with one egg a day. With my cooking skills, I can. Well, I can do a lot with it, but I hear people can do a lot with it. Chrissy can. Chrissy, who's in my bunker, can.

Yes. Silky's don't lay that many eggs. I think they lay like maybe three a week and they're really, really small. Oh my gosh. So they don't contribute that much, but silky's are like me and that our contribution is mainly vibes. That's right. That's right. And now we can say for sure, having met you,

the vibe is on fire. Yes. You are. Yes. I love you Poppy. And by me too, Bunker. I feel like we should just hang out after we finish talking like, like tonight.

Well, you never should. I've been here for like a month. I've been here for so long. I ain't live here. Yeah, we'll show you around. Well, welcome to our city. You are just absolutely lovely. I am, oftentimes we are pleasantly surprised

by our conversations with people, but I am very pleasantly surprised by my, not that I didn't expect you to be anything, but pleasant. And we have the apocalypse worked out. And we have the apocalypse handled. We have the apocalypse worked out. Sorry, Brian, but. It's okay. Just, can I be in the bunker next to you?

Next door is good. Next door is good. So that I can put a cup to the wall and listen to your vibes. We do. Our bunker has lights out at 10 PM and then doors are closed to guests. So you got to go back to- Well, I have 30 children. So yes, my lights out is going to be more like seven. Yeah. So don't worry about it. I'm an old man. No Good Deed is coming out on Netflix in just a couple of days, December 12th.

Poppy is in that. Are you, Hacks, what can we talk about Hacks? Is there another, are we going for another season? Season four is, we're filming it. Woo! Kiki is here. I love it. Yeah, we filmed for a little bit in Vegas in September

and that was awesome. I love Vegas. Vegas is incredible. Vegas is a three day town, but it's incredible. So Hacks is upcoming. You've got Space Cadets that's currently out right now and all the wonderful stuff that you've been in. Check out, go watch Better Call Saul

for the third time, Brian. Yeah. Pick out Poppy in the scenes and the- Yeah, find me. I'm in like season three, episode six or something. Don't call me on that. Get moved, yeah. So you gotta get in there to see me. You really have to dig into Better Call Saul,

but it'll be well worth the wait. And then Poppy, I'm gonna send you some, I'm gonna, I'll Instagram you some urban climbers that you can get your hands sweaty about. I can't wait. But no pimple poppers don't send them back to us I don't want it I don't want it I don't want it. That's gonna be in a private thread between me and Chrissy that it's gonna it's gonna be in our bunker group chat. That is we will have the bunker group. Yeah. I'm jealous of your relationship already but it's I'm no stranger to this particular vibe, so that's okay. The ingrown hairs will be plucked.

And I will also- Yes, they will. I want to add that too. I will pluck ingrown hairs in our bunker. Oh yeah. Oh, that's gonna be something because that can cause a really big medical issue. She gotta get them.

100%. We could do it. You gotta get the tweezers. You gotta get the whole situation. Ready? Yeah, well, I'll be your assistant. My mom let me pop a black head for her once and it like made, I mean,

I'm obviously still thinking about it. Yes. Oh my God. It was awesome. I think Poppy's actually on a mission to make me puke. Poppy, you're lovely. We just- Thank you for coming. We love you, have a wonderful time in Atlanta. We look forward to speaking with you again soon. When Haxx is going to come out,

then please come talk to us again. And we'll wrap up this conversation about all the disgusting things you've got. You girls are popping. It's Poppy. We'll put all the links in the show notes. Check out No Good Deed coming out on Thursday. Thanks, Poppy. Thank you. Thank you. 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.

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