I don't think about me. No matter how bad the situation is, I'm going to crack a little jokey joke. You feel me? Because we depressed.

I did.

On this episode of the Commercial Break. I get on the phone with Travelocity. I call their phone. Oh, Travelocity. Are they still around? Oh, yeah. I just booked something on Travelocity the other day. I hope I can pay for it, but I just booked something on Travelocity the other day. You don't have to pay until you check in. Great. Perfect. Perfect. Can I pay after I check out? Like a couple of days after? I need a couple of days to pay you back. It's all good. Don't worry about it. I'm good for it. You can use this credit card number, but don't try it right now. The next episode of the Commercial Break starts now. Yeah, Captain Kitten. Welcome back to the Commercial Break. I'm Brian Green. This is the wife of Jizzy Jazz Jeff, Chris and Joy Oatley. Best to you, Chrissy. Best to you, Brian. And best to you, all you Jizzle Drizzle fans out there. Welcome back to the commercial break of your intrepid host, Brian Green. This is my intrepid co-host, Pragmatic, son I'm the father. I'm the son of a father. The brother of a brother. The bastard of a mother.

I am Brian Green. I'm here. Yes, you are. Here. I'm there. I'm everywhere. I'm here. All right. We're going to do it. Another episode here back in the TCB studios, live from somewhere north of Atlanta. You guess. You guess. Don't dox me, bro. Don't dox me, bro. Sure. This is going to be the easiest, probably the easiest podcast ever to docs. But I'm not going to give you any more clues. You have to figure it out by yourself. You know, scary. I was reading about how the... Who was it? One of the Supreme Court justices, they were doxed. One of the or whatever they call it, where they call the police and they say there's a shooting inside the house and the police come guns ablazing. Oh, my God. Yeah, it's crazy. It's insane. Why in the world? I don't understand it. I don't get it. You know what else I don't get? I'm just going to say this. I have to say this. I have to tell you this. I think we've reached peak idiot in this country, and I'm welcoming the tinfoil hat people back into the fold. I got to say, I don't think it's the- That's true.

I don't think it's the right thing to do to then cast them off onto some island or something.

They're not looking so bad anymore.

Yeah, some of this tinfoil hat people are looking pretty sane, actually, compared to some of the stuff that's going on right now. But I have to say, even the most insane of insanity, you Dude, welcome back. Come on back. We used to say on the commercial break, go down the rabbit hole, we'll throw you a ladder, right? Because I am hearing the most ridiculous conspiracy theories around Taylor Swift and this And the Super Bowl. Now, I don't know the first fucking thing about football, and I will be the first to admit that. I really don't.

Well, you already did admit it when you thought the Chiefs lost.

Yeah, I thought the Chiefs lost in the playoffs. Now, It seems like they're heading to the Super Bowl despite the loss. Exactly. The dumbest thing I've ever said in the commercial break, and I so want to take that episode down. But I'm going to take it on the chin. I made a huge mistake, and I'm sorry about that to all the Chiefs fans or anybody out there who has any respect for NFL football. The NFL product is the most popular sport besides WWE in the world. I think WWE is the most popular sport in the world. I don't know. Is it? At least you know what you're getting with the WWE.

It's the most honest sport. I thought football was, but soccer to us.

Soccer to us. I don't know. Anyway, in the United States, whatever. I'm not even going to pretend. Football is huge. Football, WWE, soccer, it's all huge. The NFL is undoubtedly a needle pusher. Is this my landscaper's again? Listen, your boss.

I was going to say, Hey, boss.

Hey, boss. Yes. I'm coming between 12:00 and 4:00 like you told me. No, I said, Please don't come between 12:00 and 4:00. Got you, boss. No problem. Next time, I make sure I do it. Unbelievable. This is like the fifth time they've been here this week also, and we have no grass. It's the middle of the fucking winter. What are you doing?

I know. I actually have mud on my car from your daughter.

From my driveway, yes, First of all, it's been raining for a year, and so everything is mud. And now these guys are mowing the mud, charging me $75 every time they show up. It's fucking crazy. I got to talk to this guy. Juan is in trouble. You're in trouble, Juan. I He played nice up until now, but now I mean business. You better set your clock correctly. This is crazy. And I mean, they're right outside the window. Yes, they are. It's like they come. Anytime we start to press a record button. Let's get him closer. I know. He's going to do it right on the wind. It's unbelievable. You know how many episodes have Juan and his crew back there? All of them. It's almost Blue and Juan. It's the Blue and Juan show. Are the other two co-hosts of the show. It's the Blue and Juan show. It's the Blue and Juan show. You got it, boss. No problem. This guy is a rather intelligent human being. I've worked him for a long time. I've talked to him on many occasions. I can't understand what he doesn't understand about between these hours, please do not fucking come because it's so loud.

We can hear it and it goes on for 15 goddamn minutes. God damn it. All right, I'm going to try and continue, though, because I don't have all day to work on this fucking commercial break. I got 55 children. I got problems, okay? I got a Let me be louder than them. I swear to God, I want to open this window right now. Let me take a look at what's going on over here. Oh, yeah. They're parked right in my grass, too. What's left in my grass. Thanks, Juan. You're coming to cut the grass and you're parking in the grass. What the fuck is going on in here? What are we doing with our lives? I don't know. I don't know what's going on.

Well, hey, trying to keep things in perspective. If that's the worst thing that happens today, it's good.

It's going to be good. It's good. It's going to be good. It's going to be a good day. Today's been an okay day. So back to Brittany Spears and Taylor Swift or whatever we're talking about. Nfl. Okay. I am I haven't even read.

I've seen the headlines. Okay, Christie, let me tell you. But I have not delved because it does not deserve my time to read what the latest conspiracy theory is about Taylor Swift.

Well, let me tell you.

This is what's going on. Give me the cliff notes.

Some right wing, and I mean, some looney-toony fucking right wing pundits are out there pushing the notion that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey have gotten together as part of a sci stops a psychological operation to make Joe Biden win the election. That all putting the two of the most popular and powerful things together, NFL and Taylor Swift, and one endorsement by that couple pushes everything over the edge, and Joe Biden wins in a landslip. Oh, my God. There are so many people on the internet that are freaking out about this. This fucking Vinjay Ramaswami or whatever his fucking name is.

That is a very elaborate plan.

How many NFL players, how many referees, coaches, executives, are they all laying down to the altar of Joe Biden? This is fucking insane. Did they all just sacrifice themselves? No problem. I maybe have three good years in the NFL. I could make it to the Super Bowl, but Joe Biden needs to win the election.

Yeah, let's give it to Kelsey.

Yeah, let's get... Don't worry. I got your back on this one. And Kelsey. Everybody's got their backs. Fumbling and bumbling footballs to get Joe Biden elected. Have we not any common fucking sense in our head? This conspiracy theory makes Q-Anon look like cyclopedia Britannica. I mean, fucking, hey, dude. This is insane. This is insane. Even right wing, I read right wing, left wing, I read all kinds of news all over the board because I do not find myself to be affiliated. I do not find myself to be a partial to one particular brand of politics.

Plus, it's good to know what other people are saying. Absolutely. Maybe it's not in the same opinion of yours.

Even right wing news outlets are like, Come on, guys, how are we supposed to win an election when this is what we're pushing. How are we supposed to get through to the peep, the independents out there like Brian Green?

Our undecideds.

Our undecided. When this is the bullshit that we're spewing, this is the bullshit that we're spewing, and this is part of the problem in the United States right now. But I say to any of you that may be believing this line of horse shit, that alien light talker makes more sense than this. She really does. Honestly. I have to tell you right now, I welcome you back with open arms. Come back to the warm waters of common fucking sense, because this is lunacy. It's lunacy to believe that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey were put together by Big Pharma and Joe Biden to win an No one can keep a fucking secret. Do you think thousands and thousands of human beings are in on this and they're keeping the secret? Just think about that in your own life. How many times has your aunt Lucy told you that Uncle Bob is fucking sticking his dick in a goat at night and you didn't go around immediately and call your friends to tell them that Uncle Bob is fucking the local goat? This is lunacy. It's the exact same reason why we actually went to the moon.

It's the exact same. I mean, it's just like, you guys, just calm down. Calm fucking down. Yes, Taylor Swift. And by the way, by the way, if you play into this, I'm going to play right wing conservative strategist for a minute. If you play into this, you are going to anger and upset the millions and millions and millions of Taylor Swift fans, and you will lose the election. Oh, yeah. There you go. Taylor is allowed to say- There's a lot of voting age men and women. You know- Swifties. That Taylor Swift tweeted one time in 2023 three. Go vote, register to vote. Yes. Put the link to the register. And 35,000 people signed up in that day. It was 11,000% upside on how many people usually register to vote on the vote. Com website or whatever it was. Guys and girls, settle down. Simmer the fuck down. Whoever's going to win is going to win. That's going to be it. It has nothing to do with the NFL or Taylor Swift. I know. Right? Now, I have to admit, we've got two stumbling, bumbling fucking Yajus that are going to go at each other again in 2024.

It's a lesser of two evils again. But you guys got to say this is craziness in its most base form. It is people literally losing their minds.

I know.

I would like right now, right here, at this moment, I would like to endorse Frankie B for president because I know how important my endorsement is to the election.

We can ride him in.

You know, Robert F. Kennedy in the latest poll is still polling at 14% in a five-way race. He's polling at 14%. That's pretty good. That's Pretty good. I don't know what... I haven't seen a fucking RFK rally or anything. I don't know what he's all about. But anyway, can we please take it down a notch? Take it down a notch. Let's settle down. Let's bring it back to common sense. You guys could come here anytime you want to. Look how commonsensical we are. I'm a pragmatic pragmatist. I'm a son of a father. I come from the sperm of a nut. I mean, guys, just come back to the warm embrace of the commercial break. We're here, we talk very gently and softly to you.

That's right. We give Words of the day.

We give words of the day, which we'll get to in just one second. I just had to get to this first because it makes me so upset. It just drives me loony.

I was on a whole group text last night about all this with some friends, and it's insane.

It It really is.

Yeah.

It really is. I don't even know what to say. Okay, word of the day. Let's move on. I'll move on.

Also, cheers to them. I've been saying this since the beginning. I want Taylor to find love. I want everybody in the world to find love. I hope that they work out.

I do. I do, too. I think it's an immense amount of pressure to be in that relationship right now. I can't even imagine. I don't know.

But they've had some training.

She's had some training. He was also very popular NFL player before Taylor, according to everyone who knows about the NFL, right? He's a very good player.

He and his brother have had the podcast for a little while.

I think there's a difference between being the local hero of the Chiefs and then being a worldwide sensation.

There's no one. There's nothing.

No, there's nothing that compares to the bright light of Taylor Swift. At the moment, no. She was on my list, too. I mean, I don't find her to be the world's most attractive That's just my own personal perspective. But I do think she's very beautiful. She's not necessarily my type. I'm sorry, Taylor, but you're not necessarily my type. But she was on my list, my freebie list with Astrid. You get that list of celebrities, you get freebies. She was on my freebie list. Okay. Yeah. And Astrid has no fear.

We'll see where that goes. Yeah.

Well, we'll see. Taylor, when you're done with Trav, give me a call. You're listening. I'm looking to get Vivek Ramiswana We've elected. Let's do it together.

Maybe you could push Franky.

Listen, Franky for President is better than some of the options we have out there right now. Franky talks a bunch of nonsense, but at least he talks in full sentences. You know what I'm saying?

Most of the time.

Without having to take three deep breaths or talk about, I don't know, Trump was up there talking about debanking. Like debanking? What is debanking? And what he said is, They want to debank you. We're going to debank you. Everybody wants to debank you. Debanking. It's all debanking. It's the new word. He went on this five-minute rant about debanking, and everyone was like, debanking? What? What is he talking about? Debanking.

It could be anything.

But then Joe has to take three deep breaths before he says his name. He's like, I know. Too much.

Mad, mad world. It is.

Weekend of Bernie's. That's all I can think of. All right, Word of the Day.

I love that movie, by the way. Oh, it's good. Word of the Day. What is the Word of the day? We need a little I need a little sound effect.

Oh, well, let me give you a little sound effect then. What would you like? No. Okay, not that one? No? Okay. Oh, how about this? Word of the Day.

There we go. Word of the day. The word of the day today is nonage.

Nonage? Yes. Nonage. Okay, nonage, I'm going to say is a word of the Latin descendants?

That's always a good guess because a lot of words comes from Latin. Almost every word comes from Latin. But it is a late middle English word. Oh, a middle English word. Yeah, it actually comes more from French. Oh, But do you know what- Lay down thy sword, sire, with your nonage.

Hold on. In a sentence, please. In a sentence. Let's do it this way so Brian could try and guess what the word might mean.

Okay. But then, yeah. Okay.

Yeah, it gives us some context.

It's a fun game to play. Monkeys are far more developed during nonage than human adolescents are.

Okay, so nonage then must be the period of time, like the formative years of a human being.

Yeah, period of immaturity or youth, which I thought was perfect for our show. That's awesome.

Yes. All three words so far have had to do with the commercial break. Let's Let's go back. We've got Mahomey. What is it? Bonhomey. Bonhomey, which means happy and delightful. Happy and delightful. Okay. Then we've got Quintitty. Quintitty? Quintidian. Quintidian. That was what it was.

Quintidian.

Quintidian, yes. We've got that.

Which means mundane everyday task.

That's right. That's the commercial break. You listening to this commercial break is Quintidian. Now we've got nonnage. Nonnage. Which is not gnarling on some cabbage. That is nonnage means your formative years. Yes. Acting like an immature, prepuvescent person. So this describes a commercial break. I'm nonage at heart. You're nonage at heart. Yes. All my jokes are nonage. However, They are quintidian also. You have to do them every day.

See, look how we're just classing up the podcast.

Jeez, I never thought we'd go this direction with the show, but now we're spreading the knowledge all across the world.

How many- One word at a time.

How many tens of people do you think are hearing this right now going, Wow, you've really expanded my knowledge.

Something to think about. It's just a little something to think about. It is. I like it.

I'm with it. I'm down with you on the word of the day thing. I think it does bring a little bit of... Bring Yes. Nonnage. Nonnage. Brian's humor is nonnage. Nonnage. Exactly. Is it an additive?

It is a noun.

It is a noun. It's part of speech noun. Okay. I am not nonage, but I had a period of time when I was nonage. It's the period.

Exactly. Here's another example in a sentence. The summer I spent working at the park marked my transition from nonage to adulthood.

Transition from nonage to adulthood. That is where we are stuck on this show for 527 episodes. Exactly. Nonnage. 527 I've got five fucking episodes. That's okay. I'm okay being stuck there. I like nonage.

I like being a little nonage. I like my nonage period here in the studio.

I do have to say this real quick. I think it's time to address this. The commercial break is now part of the Odecy family, and we're so excited.

Oh, my God. I'm so excited. They've been so amazing.

They really have. They've been fantastic.

They've been great. Seriously, that's a big change.

Well, yes. But I also want to- I want to go too far. I also want to say that we were part of the Libson family, and were wonderful also in their own way to us for years. Then now we've moved to Odyssey, which is another podcast network, very large radio company, podcast network. They've been nothing but wonderful to us. As was Libson, was nothing but wonderful to us. If you notice some changes on artwork or show notes or something like that referring to Odyssey, that's what it is. We moved from podcast network to podcast network, as middling mediocre podcasts do. It is now the dawn of Aquarius and the Dawn of odysee here at the Commercial Break. The age of Aquarius. The age of non-a-nod.

Check your panties.

I don't know why I said, Check your panties. So thank you for taking on this show that's in its nonage period. We really appreciate it, Odyssey. Thank you for all of the kind words and kind deeds that it took to get us over here, all of the bending over of the backwards that it took to get over here. And for you, what does this mean? Not a fucking thing. It really doesn't mean anything to you guys, but we just- We're very bonhomie about it. We're very bonhomie about it. Listen, as this job is continuing, we have to push a lot of content out, and when you get some good support, that is awesome. We're feeling very grateful and lucky to be over at Odyssey, and we want to say thank you to Libsyn Advertise Cast for all the wonderful years over there.

It was during our nonage years.

Our nonage years were with- Of the podcast. Advertise Cast. Our nonage years were with Advertise Cast. That's right. But now we've grown up into big boys and girls, and we're over there at Odyssey. It doesn't mean anything to you. You can now listen to us exclusively on the Odyssey. Not exclusively, meaning you can go over there and listen to us on the Odyssey app if you choose to do that. But not much else changes with the show except for... You might notice. If I want to pull the curtain back a little bit, what you're going to notice is less advertisements in the show. That's good for you. That's a plus for you. We'll see how it works out for us.

Sorry, California Border Patrol. Sorry, Border Patrol, Kroger, and the insurance company.

But we do want to share that with you so that when you notice some things on the show notes or on the cover or art or whatever, you're like, Wow, what is that? What is Odyssey? Odyssey is our new podcast.

They have quite a few radio stations, too. I think maybe five here in Atlanta.

Yeah, they've got hundreds across the country. A very big radio company moving into the digital age, as everybody already, but they're also moving into the digital age and making strides in the podcast sector. They've got- They've screwed us up. They did.

David Spade- They don't know what they've gotten themselves into.

Yeah, they have no idea what they've gotten themselves into, but we're sure going to give them a good ride one way or the other. That's right. This is the honeymoon period, but we'll check back in six months and let you know how things are going. They still love it. Yes. But I do want to thank Leah, our agent Matt, Leah over at Oasis, Michael, Jordan, Matt, everyone who's been so... Melissa, all of the people at Oasis that have been so wonderful. Matt, our agent, who has done a great job. And thanks to Dave and Trevor over at Advertise Cast, who kept us around for probably a lot longer than we needed to be there. But we grew up with them. So our knowledge years were with them, and we do have to thank your nonage years.

You'll never forget your nonage years.

That's right. And like most families, it's probably a reason to go to therapy down the road, but for everybody involved, But for right now, we're saying our thank you, our goodbyes and our hellos. All right, so let's take a break. This is enough podcast business talk for one episode. Let's take a break, and then we'll be back. Yeah, boy. Let's cut to the chase. We love you, and we want to hear your sweet angelic voices asking us for advice. So give us a call and leave us a voicemail at 626 Ask TCV 3. If you're not ready for that commitment, which I understand, send us a text instead at 855-TCB-8383. And as always, don't forget to follow us on Instagram at The Commercial Break and on TikTok at TCB Podcast. And this wouldn't be a TCB promo if I didn't tell you, to go to our YouTube channel, youtube. Com/thecommercialbreak, to watch all of our amazing video edits. You can also go to tcbpodcast. Com to find everything we have ever put on the website. Let's listen to some sponsors And then we are back on track, baby. Love you. Bye. This episode is sponsored in part by Prizepicks.

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Because wasn't he going to be in Atlanta?

I think maybe he had flown to Atlanta, whatever. But he agreed to be on the show, and I didn't follow up with him because I don't. That's what I don't do. Because I have a meeting in five minutes ago. No other reason except the moment passed. The moment passed and I thought to myself, Okay, let's not torture this poor guy on 30 minutes of the commercial break. He posted this Instagram story, I don't know, about two weeks ago, and it is an insane story. All he usually does, and for those of you who don't know, we're talking about a guy on Instagram. Let me see if I can find his name, but he He'd sing a song. What he would do is he'd show up at a different location. Like a different city. Different city, an airplane, an airport, a bathroom. He'd show up and he'd be like- Timesquare. Timesquare. It'd be like, I traveled 3,700 miles to sing this song to you. Then he'd lip sync his song, his one song that got a little bit viral, and it went like this, I am rectangular. I feel it in my bones. I am rectangular, I have no holes.

It's like, what? You have no holes? Everybody He has holes, bro. But it was a pleasant song. It was like an earwig. It got stuck in your ear. And then he is like the singing CEO is what he claims, right? He's a musical artist, and he's also a CEO of what I don't know. He gets on and it's just him talking. I was like, Oh, that's weird. That's not his usual thing. I stick around. It's about a three-minute reel or video that he did on Instagram. He explains. He says, Listen, I usually come on here with happiness and goodness, and I just want to I'm trying to a little cheer and joy with my music and all that other stuff. But I do want to share this serious story, something that happened to me and my family just recently. He explains that him and his family traveled to Africa. When they traveled to Africa, they decided, I forget which country they were in, and I don't want to get it wrong, so I'm not going to say it. He says they decide to go somewhere near the border, this beautiful place. They're going to drive up there for the day and come back.

I think they were actually doing some charity work or something. They're going to go do this charity work, take a drive along the border, and come back. As they are driving- Like the border of another country?

Another country, yeah. Or the border of the continent? No.

The Coast. Yeah, no, border of a country in the interior. He explains that as they're driving, they get stopped by some rebels, by some armed rebels.

Yeah, there's a lot going on.

He says that he's with his daughters and they're in this car and they don't know what to do, so he complies, right? Because what else are you going to do? Armed rebels show up and you're in a strange country, to comply, right? And just pray that somehow, some way you get out of this. So these armed rebels then take them, they take the car, they start driving them around for hours and hours and hours, yelling at them, they're going to kill them, they're going to shoot them, you're going to die. Oh, my God. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, That's awful. Yeah. He's like, It's all I can do to just keep my head about me and make sure that I do whatever I can to make sure that my family is safe. To save the kids.

Yeah.

At one point, they didn't ask him to get out of the car and da, da, da, da, da They take him and then they grab his ATM card, and they're taking out thousands of dollars across these ATMs. Finally, at some point, under the grace of God, the universe, the universal energy, karma, whatever, they let them go unharmed, which is the best part of that story. But he wanted to share that this had happened to him and his family and that it was a really stressful and intense and dramatic situation. I can't really imagine. Then he goes on the H3 podcast. Now my thought was, okay, now I need to reach out to him because now he's got like, let's hear this story in its full... Without brevity, let's hear the full thing. But H3 podcast gets to him sooner, and they're probably the better podcast to do this anyway. Okay, so he puts out the H3 podcast and he explains the whole story. How fucking crazy is that? I mean, how insane. Have you ever been traveling in a strange country when something insane happened and you didn't know what to do?

No. I don't want that to happen.

I'm not talking about kidnapping, just like some event where you were like, Oh, shit. I'm in a strange land. I'm in a foreign land. I don't know what to do.

I'm trying to think. No. No. I've had good experiences. Okay, that's good. Knock, knock, knock. That being said, I'm going to Jamaica in a few weeks, and they just got upgraded to level three.

As did, what was it? Bahamas. Nasa. Bahamas.

Well, they got upgraded to two.

Well, I thought they had 18 murders in the capital in the last three months or something. Something's going down. When Astrid and I were in France, I already told the story that we were there. We left the day before the Bada Klan shootings, and that we were in that part of Paris, and that we had visited one of the cafés where some of the shooting had gone down. That was a pretty surreal experience. My heart goes out to anyone that was affected by that tragedy. I'm just sharing the story that I was there. I was close. It felt real. It felt intense when I was watching it on TV. But there was another part of our trip to Paris that I haven't shared. When Astrid and I got there, when Astrid and I were separated in the sense that we were long distance. Astrid was living in Switzerland, and she knew that I was going to come to Switzerland, and then we were going to travel down to Paris. She said, Let me take care of it. Give me your credit card information. I'll take care of arranging everything. She just, we talked. She's really good at that.

Really good at that. Very organized. She'll find a good place. Astrid picks the Hyatt La Congrée, which means at the Congress, the French Congress, the Parisian Congress, which is right close to the Eiffel Tower. It's within a mile and a half of the Eiffel Tower. She picks a room where we can have a view of the Eiffel Tower.

That's so romantic.

At the Hyatt. I am just thinking to myself, The Hyatt, I'm sure we can't go wrong. We're going to have a view of the Eiffel Tower. What a better room to be in when you're in Paris. We take a train, we get to the train station, we take a cab, we're pulling up to The Hyatt. The Hyatt is a big round building sitting on the back of the Congressional building there. Huge round building, big old hotel, big old conference hotel. The lobby is grand. It's huge. It's like three football fields. It's this incredible lobby that you walk into. I am just so excited because I like a good hotel, right? I'm like, Oh, look at this. Look at us. There's the Eiffel Tower.

We're in love.

Here's the Lake Congre.

A huge lobby at the Hyatt. Astrid, you may expect this for these kinds of things for the rest of your life. Yes.

Astrid, you can expect this for the next two weeks. I got to get some cocaine. I'm going to be crazy. We walk in, we get there. The lady checks us in. How are you doing? Welcome. Where are you from? Congratulations. Have you ever been here? Here's all the things. Seventh floor this, 12th floor, that, rooftop bar. You're in good hands here. It is a circular hotel. It's built like a circle, right?

Like the Weston down here. Correct.

We go to the elevators, and the first thing that you notice is that the elevators maybe have not been updated since 1972. They are tiny. They are tiny and they are old.

That's Europe, though, I feel like. In general.

There's a lot of older buildings. Yes. The elevators are known to be very small, as are sometimes the rooms over there, because It's just they're not American. They don't like everything big and bad. They just need a bed and a toilet, right?

People used to be smaller, too.

Those French people are small. They don't need all the room that we do. We go up to whatever floor, we get out, and it's a little elevator area in the middle, and then you literally can walk in a circle around the entire thing in the hallway. They open this room. There's a guy there to show us it. When they open it up, it's like, da, da, da, da, It is two beds, two tiny little beds, a tiny little room, a tiny little window, a tiny little bathroom. There is blood stains on the floor, and I'm not even kidding about this. It looks like blood stains on the floor. The carpet is gross. It smells badly like cigarette smoke because I'm sure the people smoked in there for years and years and years. The ceilings are seven foot three, so it feels like you're being enclosed in a little box. Now, I know I'm being a little brady about this, but that's me. I'm a little brady about some of these things. I open the window, right? It's this tiny little window. And yes, you can see the Eiffel Tower. If you open the window and twist your head outside of it a little bit, we're on the opposite side I love it.

You can see it, and there is a view, but it is not exactly the view we were thinking it was going to be.

It's not just right in the middle, right there, in front of you.

No, ma'am. No, ma'am. You would really have to strain and stress to see the Eiffel Tower. It's a partial view. It's a partial view. Then the daytime, okay, I can see it. At night time, you can see a little better because it's all lit up. But anyway. So instantaneously, and you got to also understand is that Astrid and I are very much in love. I very much want to marry this woman, and I very much want to impress her on this trip to Paris. So instantaneously, I'm a little hussy-fussy, right? I'm smoking cigarettes, I think, at the time. Well, you went with the room then.

I need a cig right now.

I need a smokey. I need a smokey treat right now. So I'm an instantaneously a little bit fussy. And she goes, Oh, I thought it was going to be a little bit nicer. I said, Hey, listen, don't worry. How would you know? The pictures looked nice. It was an Eiffel Tower view. How would you know? No one would know. It's okay. I'm like, We're not going to get all fluffed about this. It's going to be a great vacation. We're going to take it in stride. We're just here to sleep. That's it. I'm going to go downstairs and smoke a cigarette. I am immediately going to talk to the manager is what I'm really thinking. I'm not going down to smoke a cigarette. I'm going to talk to the manager, not to be an American brat, but to see if I can get a different room. I'll pay for it. I'll I don't care. I'm going to give him the Brian look, which Esther calls it the Brian look, where I magically make things happen by going, Could you? I mean, that'd be really great of you. I mean, I don't want to put you out or anything, but if you might, right?

You get more flies with honey. If you insist. If you insist on upgrading me to a suite for no money, then I insist on telling you how wonderful you are, right? Yes. I go down, I say, Hey, listen, ma'am, I go back to the same lady, I say, Ma'am, I love your hotel. It's super great. Those elevators, I mean, what a ride. What a ride. What a ride. How soft and sweet. I was really happy that we could fit four of us in that tiny little elevator. I was imagining that there'd be a little bit more room. I was wondering if there was any way that you could find a suite for us or a junior suite or something along those lines. Listen, I'd really be happy to pay. I just didn't think it was going to be this small. I also was hoping that we could get the beds together. That was the main thing. That was when we get the beds together. Oh, no problem, Mr. Green. She calls over the manager. The manager says, I don't want you to have a bad time while you're here, Mr. Green. This is your first time in Paris.

Give him the Brian look, and lo and behold, we've got a club-level suite Junior Suite. We'd be happy to give it to you. No additional charge. That's for you for your first time to Paris Hope you come back. That's sweet. Okay, great. I go back upstairs, do my smoky treat, go back upstairs, open the door, and I say, Astrid, pack the bags.

We're moving on up, right?

She goes, What did you do? I go, I just gave him the Brian look. Don't worry about it. It's all good. We're just going to go to a little bit of a bigger room. At least the bed is together so we can consummate this relationship. They insisted. They insisted. No extra charge. She was, Oh, my God, I'm so sorry. I'm like, It's not your fault. Why would you not? I'm not worried. I'm not fluffed you. The hotel is different than we thought it was going to be. Let's get that junior suite. Guy comes up, takes our bags. We go up a couple of floors. We're on the club level. Great. Wonderful. He opens the door. Oh, no.

A junior suite is two of the rooms that we just left with a door in the middle that you have to open. That's a connected room.

It's a connected room. But the other connected room has one couch, additional blood stains, and a television, and a bathroom.

Oh, it was the suite because then you could lawn the living room area.

That's it, yeah. But I don't need a lounge area. No. I need two beds together. Exactly at least. I need to be with the girl that I'm here to stay with, right? That's what I would like. I don't need a room to get away from her. I need a room to be I mean, come on, guys. Now I'm like, Okay, all right, Brian, you really got to calm down, right? The view is a little bit better in the second room, a little bit better in the second room. I'm like, Okay, Brian. At least there's that. There's that. We go out. That We go out, we leave the hotel, we come back after we have some dinner, and we walk around Paris for a couple of hours. Asard has gotten some hair dye so she can color her hair. Because I guess in Switzerland where she lived, it It was a trip to go get the hair dye, so she decided I'll buy it here and I'll do it here. Okay. Well, touch up. I look good, right? We're going to... Okay.

Tick pictures.

We go up into the hotel room. She's like, I'm going to dye my hair. I'm like, great. I'm going to go down for a smoky treat and talk to the fucking manager. It's not right. That's what I'm going to do. I can't get it out of my head, right? Now I'm really starting to gear up. This grinds my gears. I go down and I say, Hey, Mufrey, I don't mean to be a bother or a pest. Mufrey. Concealer. I don't mean to be a pain in your butt, but I do have to say that I wish that we had a sweet suite, like a sweet in one room. But there's many happy things going on.

The key word being, too, do you have a king-size bed? That's what I said.

I said, We still have this problem.

We can go back to a smaller room.

You can put me downstairs on the first floor next to the janitor's closet if we could just have a bed together and a little bit of a view toward the Eiffel Tower. I would appreciate that. He says, Listen, the only other thing that we have is presidential-type suites, what they would call presidential-type suites, and they are all taken for because the Congress in the session, the conference is a session, whatever. I was like, okay. Many, many presidents are here. We've got many presidents taking up our many presidential suites. I'm thinking to myself at this point, well, okay, all right. This is what I do. I walk away, I'm in the same lobby. There's almost no one in this lobby. There's five or six people milling around, a couple of people behind the desk. It's this huge lobby. I go far enough so that they can't hear me, and I get on the phone, right? I get on the phone with Travelocity. I call their phone number. Oh, Travelocity. Good old Travelocity. They have a phone number and you can call it. Are they still around? What's that? Are they still around? Oh, yeah. I just booked something on Travelocity the other day.

I hope I can pay for it, but I just booked something on Travelocity the other day. You don't have to pay until you check in. Great. Perfect. Great. Perfect. Can I pay after I check out? Like a couple of days after? Yeah. I just need a few days. You don't mind, dude. I need a couple of days to pay you back. It's all good. Don't worry about it. I'm good for it. You can use this credit card number, but don't try it right now. And if they call, ask you to talk to me, tell them that I'm not available. So I'm behind this stanchion of couches.

A picture of a plant.

It is. I'm behind some planters and some couches, right? I'm not hiding, hiding, but I'm far enough away so that they can't hear what I'm saying. I get on the phone with Travelocity and I say, Yeah, listen, I know this is weird, but I'm in a strange country and I really don't know what I'm talking about. I need to find a hotel in Paris that is close to the Ark or something in this local area that we're in. I need something.

Yeah, because Paris is situated by different neighborhoods.

Yeah, by different neighborhoods. You don't want to be in That's the wrong one. Right.

That's what I've heard.

It's like every place. I haven't been to Paris. Every big city in the world, you don't want to be in the wrong neighborhood. Well, that's true. That's just Paris. It's every city. At the time, there was some upheaval going on. I just wanted to be mindful of where we were staying. I also wanted to be mindful that We didn't have a car, and we needed to walk or be able to get to whatever it is we had planned to do. I get on the phone with this lady. I will never forget her name, Stacey. Stacey is like, Listen, I'm not a Parisian expert, right? I don't know. But my best friend just got back from Paris, and she stayed there for two weeks, and she had the best time.

Let me text her. Let me talk with her.

Let me text her. I'm like, Holy It's really nice. Really? You're going to text this girl and ask her on my behalf? I'm giving her the Brian look hard over the phone, and it's apparently is making its way over there because she is like, I will text my friend and I will ask her if she knows of any place. Yada, yada, yada. This back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Finally, she says, Listen, my friend stayed at this hotel, but she walked to have cocktails at this other hotel, and it sounds like this one fits the bill. It's newer, the rooms are bigger, they have king size, they have a courtyard you can overlook. They have free breakfast. Sounds lovely. It sounds lovely. And she's like, And it's in walking distance to the Ark. You can go the Ark. Not at all. Yeah, the Ark or the Chantaliset. You're right there in the middle of it She goes, And I found it, and we have it on here, and I could book it right now for you, blah, blah, blah.

Is it a smoking room?

Is it a smoking room? That's exactly. They're all smoking rooms in Paris, I think. I mean, some of them are, right? But I don't want to smoke in the room. No, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. Stacey books this room for me, and I am so very excited that she has done this. She's booked a room from this time to this time.

That's just above and beyond service. I love hearing stories like that.

It is incredible. I will always be in debt to this particular person. Stacey, wherever you are at the Travelocity family, I hope you're still there. You did an amazing job. I actually wrote a letter to Travelocity about this, by the way. Oh, nice. Because I thought it was just extraordinary how she helped me out. When I had no clue where I was or what I needed to do, she found me a hotel that fit the bill in a safe neighborhood because she knew that this trip was important to me and my relationship because I told her the story because that's the Brian book. You got to get them emotionally invested in what you're doing. You got to get them the story. If you just say, I need a hotel, bitch. They're going to be like, Okay, Here's a Motel 6, the quadrant 7 where you're going to get- At the airport. At the airport, right next to the runway, you son of a bitch. Okay, so now we've got that hotel booked, but we have a problem. We've got an additional 10 days at the Hyatt, and we're locked in. We've already checked in. So what is there?

What shall we do? Well, I'll tell you right after this break. Oh, man. Are you mindlessly scrolling Instagram right now? How about throwing us a follow at the Commercial Break and also at TCB podcast on TikTok? Check out our website, tcbpodcast. Com, to find absolutely everything you could ever want to know about us. And if you simply can't stay away, call us and leave us a voicemail at 626 Ask TCB 3, or you can text us at 855 TCB 8383. While you're contemplating divulging your life drama to us, have a listen to our sponsors. You know you love me. Xoxo Gossip Girl. Okay, so now we've got- Where we left off. We've got the hotel collectionaire booked for the rest of our trip. King-size- You're double-booked now. Club-level, I'm double-booked. I'm not going to pay $3,000 here and $4,000 there, whatever it was. I'm like, Okay, I got a problem now. I got a problem with my checkbook. I got a problem with this credit card. I don't think it's got that limit it. I gather myself, I go up, and I do the only thing that an honest, hardworking American would do, I lie.

I say, Listen, unfortunately, I think we're going to have to go back to the United States. There's problems at home, and I don't know what to do, and I got to travel back to the United States. I'm happy to talk to your manager and make a deal where I pay for a certain amount of nights because I know that I booked this a long time ago, and then maybe you could not me for every single night. Is there something that can be done? I told her, but most of the truth, I said, We're going to move to another hotel until we make a decision about whether or not we need to go back or not, just for the sake of being more convenient there. Comfortable. Yeah, more comfortable. Listen, I think she understood. She understood. He just came up here. He wants a king size. We don't have it. What are we going to do? Pushing two small beds together. Maybe that's not his thing. Okay. It's not like when you push the two small beds together, it comes together as a nice, neat little king. No. It comes together as a small queen, and the headboards are sideways.

They fall off the wall. It's just not the most convenient thing in the world. A lot of hotels in Europe will do this. They'll push them together and put a mattress top on it. But that has not happened at this hotel. I'm like, Fuck me. She gets the manager over and They're all talking in the back there. In French? In French.

In some language.

Some language that I don't understand in Paris. The lady comes back, the manager comes back, and she says, Mr. Green, we want you to have a good time. We hope you come back. We know that this didn't fit your needs this time, and I hope everything's back okay at home. Where are you going next? What's the next hotel? I said, I'm going to go to the Lake Collection in Air. She says, It's a beautiful hotel. It's a wonderful hotel. I know it well. She goes, Okay, here's what I'm going to do. I'm not going to charge you for any of the nights if you leave tomorrow by 10:00 AM. I was like, What? She's like, I'm going to refund all your money. I'm sorry, it just didn't work out this time. I think we're getting a renovation soon, and hopefully you'll come back in a future trip. I was like, Wow, okay. All right. I like the style.

If you insist.

Insist. Now we're talking is one o'clock in the morning now. I've been gone for a full hour. Astrid's up there dying her hair, texting me furiously. I'm just not responding because I'm on the phone with everybody. Are you okay? Are you okay? Are you okay? You went down for a smoke two hours ago. So I come running upstairs like a beam of sunshine. I break open the door and I go, Honey, pack your bags. Tomorrow morning, 10:00 AM, we're going to the Lake Collectionaire. And she's like, What? And I'm like, Babe, I don't even want to get into the story, but I'm telling you what, I gave him the Brian look hard. I worked a little magic. A little jizy-drizel. A little jizy-drizel, like jizzy Jeff would do. Yeah. He's good at that stuff, too. I said, Hey, listen, babe, we're going to go to another hotel. I just think it would be better for our trip. We're here for 10 days, just if we at least if we can sleep together, right? At least we can be together in the same bed without having to move the furniture. She says, Yes, honey. Okay. She looks worried.

I'm like, But what's wrong? I thought that would be a good news. She's like, That's really good news, but there's bad news. I was like, What's the bad news? She's like, I tied my hair on the white marble and it's not coming out. I was like, What? She's like, It's not coming out. I'm like, What do you mean it's not coming out? She's like, I spilled the dye and it's not coming off of the marble. It's soaked into the marble. It's not coming out. I go in there and it looks like literally my daughter had split her head open and poured blood all over this and it won't come out. Now I'm freaking out because I'm like, Oh, shit. Now we're charged for the fucking sure for the marble. For the marble. Exactly.

For the whole renovation of the room now. Yes.

Fast forward. Now it's two or three in the morning and I have to go downstairs and I have to say, Listen, I'm really sorry, but my wife was dying her hair.

He's been up and down the elevator.

I know. I'm now friends. I've been up and down the elevator that goes two miles per hour and we're on the 38th floor. I'm going to spend 30 minutes getting up and down each time. That's if you can get the elevator. I'm like, I'm really I'm sorry about this. I swear to God, even though I didn't stay there and it wasn't my favorite hotel in the world, these people could not have been nicer. They were like, Don't worry about it. I'm like, It's not coming out. Do you have any cleaning solution or something? I can try and get it.

They probably had some special...

She was like, Listen, we have some magic, something that can get that out. Don't worry about it. There's been worse. We've had all... I said, Yeah, I know. I see it on the floor.

Didn't you see how clean our room was?

Did you see the blood stains on the floor? We did a great job with that. We covered it up with piss and You know what I'm saying? I said, Okay. All right. 10 AM, we get out, we go to the Lake collection there. It's just the most amazing hotel. It's the most beautiful, shining, amazing hotel. This is all coming back to what happened that made me uncomfortable in Paris. I say this because I thought it was a good story to tell while I was piggy-fronting off of the story. Piggy-fronting, yes. That night, Astrid and I decide. We check in, we get settled. Everything's great. We're on the club level. We can go to this little club area, and it's overlooking the Parisian streets. It's just beautiful. Everything's just beautiful in this hotel. It's lovely. I love it. It's perfect. It's exactly what I wanted, and Astrid, too. At night, we get dressed up. We're ready to go. We're going to go hit the town. We're going to go find a place near the shop. Paris. Paris, the lights, the city, the smells, the lovely. It's a lovely... It's incredible. City of love. City of lights.

Yes, it's amazing. Love to Paris. We get up, we go to take... We ask the guy, Hey, how can we get to this nice restaurant? Yeah, go this way. Take a left. It's a couple of blocks down the street. You're going to love it. Okay, so we start walking, and about 50 feet past the hotel is one of those green crosses signifying that there's a pharmacy back there or a medical facility. Pharmacia. Yeah, Pharmacia. That's in Spain. But Les pharmacies? I don't know. But those green signs are everywhere in Europe, and they mean some medical attention can be gotten there, or a pharmacy or whatever. It's like the universal sign for medical care there or medicine. The Green's cross. Yeah, the Green cross. The Green cross, the lit up Green cross. We're walking and I just noticed the pharmacy. I noticed this man walking out of the whatever it is, pharmacy, medical place, whatever it is. He's walking out and he's an older gentleman, but he's spry. He's walking out. I'm talking to Astrid, and I got my eye on him because he's crossing in front of us. You're judging that thing. Should I slow down?

Should I speed up? Do we crash into each other? What's going on? He walks toward the street and he walks in between two cars. As he walks in between two cars, he just goes down. He just goes down. But he didn't trip. He just goes down. He just passed out. He's got a long coat on. It's a little chilly. He just, boom, goes down, hits his head, and I'm like, What just happened? I run a couple steps ahead. There was also a guy standing on a wall smoking a cigarette. He also comes. He doesn't speak a little English. I don't speak a little French. Astrid's got some French in her vocabulary, but Astrid's freaking out because of what just happened. Well, right. Shocking. Yeah. And so I turned the guy over, me and this other guy, turned the guy over, and he is DEAD. He is dead. What? He is not breathing. He is not okay. Something has happened. He has had a major heart attack right there. He fell out. It was a Amazing how quickly this happened. He was walking perfectly normal. And then the next moment, he is not... Because the guy put his hands on the guy's neck.

Yeah, feel for a pulse. And then I was looking for breathing. None of that was happening. The guy was like, Whatever he's saying. I run into the pharmacy because I don't know what number to call, emergency-wise, in France either. I don't know. It got 999-222-777. I'm not really sure. I run. Green Cross. Okay, let me run in there. I run in there. There's two guys in lab coats standing around doing whatever. I don't know if it's a pharmacy or an emergency care or a doctor or whatever. I'm like, someone passed out out there. Someone had a heart attack. I'm going like this. They're like,. I'm like, I'm trying to communicate. Come with me. That's what I'm doing. I'm like, Come, come. I go like this, heart attack, heart attack, man outside. They're befuddled because they don't understand a fucking word I'm saying. I'm like, Oh, shit. What do I do? Now I go and I open the door and I'm like, guy, outside It's like, I met us. It needs help. Finally, one of them caught on that something was happening and he needed to be out there. He runs out there and as soon as he gets down with the guy, then he is saying in French, and we know this because Astrid translated a little bit, someone call emergency services.

We need an ambulance. I'm going to see it, whatever it is. Call them, call them. Well, I don't know. I don't know who to call. I don't know how to call it. No. I'm looking. Now, there's a couple of people around, right? I'm looking around like, You call? You call? Can you call? Yeah, and they're all like, What are you talking about? What do you want me to do? Can you call? Chrissy, I didn't know what to do. This poor man on the ground, I didn't know what to do. I know how to give CPR, but there's lots of people around him right now, and I don't know if CPR is the appropriate thing to do because I can't understand what they're saying. I don't know if he's had a heart attack, if he's having trouble breathing, if he needs CPR, does he need the paddles? I don't know. Where are the paddles? Where's the AED? I have no fuck. I don't even know how to call fucking emergency services. Why was everybody looking to you to do something? Well, because I'm the big, strong American. I'm the cowboy. I'm John fucking Wayne. Yeah, I gave him the Brian look.

Unfortunately, the guy's dead. What do you want me to do? I can't work that magic. I could get you a free hotel room, but I can't get you back to life.

I can't do that.

I was so freaking out, and I felt absolutely helpless in this moment. This poor bastard fell out in front of me, me and Astrid and another human being are the only three that witnessed what happened, and I cannot communicate at all what's going on to anybody, including, I don't even know how to call for help. I was lucky to get those two guys in lab coats out the because they were literally confused at what I was saying. They were like, Why is he talking? They literally had their hands up in the air. I don't know. I don't know what you're talking about. This is a terrifying experience.

The adrenaline is just popping in the whole thing.

You cannot even imagine how high I was, but not in a good way. Because in America or in an English-speaking country or in Spain, where I could speak some Spanish or understand Spanish, I would have at least been able to help take action. But in this case, I was paralyzed by the fact that I was in a strange land with strangers, and we didn't understand each other.

Yeah, and you didn't know how to call for help.

I bring this back to Sean's... Oh, Sean is his name. I bring this back to Sean's music. I mean, Sean's kidnapping story. How terrifying. I was a guy who witnessed something happening, trying to help someone where there was no violence, no threat of violence, nothing like that was going on. Only for a brief moment that I think maybe this guy has gotten shot and we did not hear it, and something like that. But it quickly became apparent that there was no blood coming out of anywhere except for his head where he hit his head. That was not a gunshot. I knew that immediately. I can't even imagine what it would be like to have some strangers screaming and yelling at you. You could pretty much infer that what they wanted to do was not nice, and you have no idea. Terrifying. There's no one to call. There's no help. You don't even understand the language. Terrifying. Absolutely terrifying. Terrifying. So this has been a nice episode of the Commercial Week.

Okay, I was about to say it.

There's no comedy to this. I'm just sharing. I watched this guy.

Maybe you, listeners, can share your terrifying story.

Yeah, I mean, if you have a story or two, we'd love to hear it. Oh, that's a good content idea. Tell me your most terrifying story when you felt helpless internationally. You were traveling internationally, something happened, and you had no idea what to do because it wasn't your home turf. You didn't understand. You don't have to be from the United States of America to tell me the story either. You can be from another country in the United States of America and being terrified.

We have some listeners over in Great Britain.

We have a lot of listeners in a lot of Yeah, I'd like to hear from that. Great Britain, Canada. Yeah, I'd like to hear from that. India, because we had Veer on and we picked up quite a few Indian listeners, actually. Welcome. What's that? Welcome. Welcome to you. Hello. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Who is that? That was the Alien Light Language Girl, too, wasn't it? Was she saying welcome? Yeah, that was the girl who said welcome like 30 times in the first minute and a half of her video. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Anyway, Christie, it was a really- What happened? Weird moment. The ambulance came. Okay. They took them away very quickly. I can only assume- You and Astrid skipped on down the street towards your restaurant reservation. We had a lovely dinner. Actually, I think we missed the reservation, and so we ended up going to somewhere on the Champ de Lisette, like some patio on the Champ, and then having a way overpriced meal. It wasn't all that great. But. But.

Yeah. Then that was all you could talk about at the dinner.

I tried to keep it low-key because Esther is not into that stuff. I think that really freaks her out. I tried not to harp on it. But I'll tell you what, I wasn't very hungry because I had a ton of adrenaline just coursing through me. I just... That made me...

I love a cafe.

Yeah. Do you have any marmelade? Marmelade. That's good for adrenaline, right? Yeah. Okay. All right. Milk. That's right. I'll take one of those éclairs, though. I'd eat those anytime. A croissant. Oh, croissant. Croissant. A croissant with Nutella. That's what you want. Crescent with Nutella or a... What do they call those? The pancakes?

Oh, yeah. Crepe. Crepe.

A crepe with Nutella. Pancakes. A crepe with Nutella. That is the jam. Crepe, strawberries.

I've got to go. It's on my list to go. You got to go to Paris. But then every time I think about going to Europe, I just want to go back to Italy.

Italy is beautiful, no doubt about it.

But Paris is a- I'm thinking about going to Norway. I'll tell you more about that later.

Okay, well, then. You and Jizy Jeff? Yeah. Bringing your naked side so attraction over to Norway? Exactly. I think it's just readily accepted that people are going to be naked in Norway. It's like a naked plunging and diving and stuff like that.

That's what we're planning on.

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I think so.

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